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TIL Chris Farley has a brother that is a touring comedian

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6oOY TIL that India has proposed to link 67 rivers to prevent floods and droughts. By doing so, an area equivalent to that of Germany will be irrigated.
x6LDB TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill
X05ak TIL you can see Half Dome in Yosemite National Park from Copernicus Peak on Mt. Hamilton. This peak is located 100 miles away across the entire Central Valley in a completely separate mountain range.
MevWb TIL about Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, an undocumented immigrant who learned English in his 20s, picked cotton and welded, graduated from Berkeley and Harvard and went on to become one of the top neurosurgeons in the US
OG4rY TIL that in the 90s, Disney proposed a live-action version of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) using the USS Arizona as the main vessel instead of Yamato