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TIL that Dana Snyder’s audition for “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” was literally an angry, abusive and drunk rambling message left on the voice mail of Dave Willis, the show’s producer and writer. Snyder eventually became the voice for “Master Shake”.

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wonNJ TIL of the practice of leblouh, where young girls in Mauritania are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day in order to fatten them up for marriage.
R55m1 TIL about Poverty Point, a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture located in present-day northeastern Louisiana between 1700 and 1100 BCE.
P1kpG TIL that the .nu top-level domain, intended for the country of Niue, is currently managed by the Swedish Internet Foundation. The government of Niue is in legal proceedings to reclaim ownership of the domain.
bjlN TIL it would only take ~12 GB to download all ~5,000,000 articles from Wikipedia.
GY4Z1 Today I learned that when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, many Greek-Romans came to Egypt as tourist. Many of them ended up carving their names stating “so and so was here, and the work of these Egyptians are great” in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings.