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TIL Jerry Seinfeld once refused to play a turkey on South Park. However George Clooney was totally fine with playing a dog.

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DPvv TIL: On April 1st 1974 in Alaska, Oliver Bikar set a 100 tire fire alight inside the crater of extinct volcano Mount Edgecumbe. Upon arrival an investigating Coast Guard helicopter found April Fool’s written in 50 ft high letters.
wLQ1P TIL that the peak of TV attention can be assigned an exact date: Sunday, September 9, 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first appearance on television, on CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show. Its 82.6 percent share of US viewers has never been equaled or bettered.
e0Z65 Today I learned, submarine sonar is no a “ping” like movies and games, but actually EXTREMELY loud and can kill people and sea life
eylb TIL To acquire their first users, Pinterest Co-Founder Ben Silbermann would run around Apple shops changing all browsers to Pintrest, before they caught him and kicked him out.
N7xjJ TIL that black walnut trees produce a toxin that is released from their roots, that can weaken or kill other plants near them.