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TIL that Nickleback’s manager instructed Jimmy Kimmel Live director Bobcat Goldwait not to shoot Chad Kroeger from profile because of his big nose. Goldwait waited until there were 10 seconds left in the band’s live performance, then ordered all cameras to shoot Kroeger’s nose.

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g0jL TIL in 2011 a Mexican drug cartel hijacked multiple public transportation busses and forced the passengers to fight each other to death. The survivors were recruited as hitmen for the cartel.
jBKX TIL President James Garfield entertained his friends by having them ask him questions, and then writing the answer in Latin with one hand while simultaneously answering in Greek with the other.
wYBP TIL it is possible to score a “quintuple double” in basketball. This has never happened in the NBA; only in Girls high-school play.
OMV1 TIL Daniel Day-Lewis was performing on stage as Hamlet when, while acting out the scene where Hamlet talks to his dead father, he believed he saw the ghost of his own father. He ran off the stage, refused to go back on, and hasn’t done theater since.
Mey5V TIL that in 1985 the New Orleans lifeguards threw a party celebrating having gone an entire season without a single drowning. During the party a man drowned in the back pool while four lifeguards were on duty.