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TIL Chiclets get their name from the Chicle tree, this trees sap being a prehistoric form of chewing gum.

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Bllk TIL The Guinness Book of World Records Holds the Record for Being the Book Most Often Stolen from Public Libraries
e0V5k TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”.
KOxYG TIL in 1965, Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL in the Austrian Army (during the 1 year service required by the government) to attend a bodybuilding contest. He spent a week in military prison, but won the contest, propelling the opportunity for larger contests and, ultimately, his ticket to to America
4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue
J1lLl TIL in 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a single man pitch a tent (a 24-man army tent) after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event grew so large it even attracted corporate sponsers. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to accomplish the task.