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TIL Andre The Giant was named Andre Rene Rousimoff.

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py94 TIL: Randy Quaid (National Lampoon’s Cousin Eddy) is a wanted felon
9wyJM TIL the statue atop the US Capitol building was going to have a liberty cap (the old Roman symbol of an emancipated slave), but future Confederate President Jefferson Davis made the sculptor remove it.
oMD8 TIL Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950’s with the help of the United States.
ma6v TIL that in 2012 Mountan Dew cad a contest to name a new green apple flavored drink. 4chan picked up on this and skewed the contest. The winning submissions were “Hitler did nothing wrong” and “diabeetus”.
910X TIL Earlier this year Indonesian fishermen found what they believed to be an angel from Indonesian mythology that had fallen from the sky. Police investigations found it to be a sex doll.