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TIL Chris Farley has a brother that is a touring comedian

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NKPM TIL Tolkien’s book “The Two Towers” is ambiguous with regard to the title as any pair from the five towers in the story could plausibly fit the title. Tolkien drew a cover illustration showing the towers he meant but the publisher decided not to use it in order to save money.
vPE6K TIL: Pure water (distilled or deionized) is a poor conductor of electricity. It is the dissolved ions and contaminants that conduct electricity.
GYP77 TIL Laika Studios, the company behind stop motion classics such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, is owned by Phil Knight, cofounder of Nike, and run by his son, Travis Knight.
p8nZ4 TIL That Asbestos was not completely banned in the United States, and can still be legally used
LQBoV TIL That Red Granite Pictures the production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a 60 million dollar settlement with the US government over a 4.5 billion Malaysian government corruption case