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TIL The kid who played Flick, the one that got his tongue stuck to the frozen flag pole in the move “A Christmas Story”, became a porn star.

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5YeOB TIL the man who holds the Guinness record for the world's lowest voice can hit notes so low that only animals as big as elephants are able to hear them.
e05Qn TIL the term "Playboy" was initially popularized by the life of Harry Kendall Thaw, a millionaire sociopath and mentally ill railroad heir who spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior (including murder), and gratification of sexual appetites.
0wvj1 TIL that being a NASCAR pit crew member is so physically demanding that today instead of giving mechanics physical training, they take athletes and give them auto mechanic training
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