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TIL Jason Statham was a professional diver and even tried to go to the Olympics

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ZpDlY TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.
oBb9W TIL the woman who invented Mother's Day spent the last years of her life trying to abolish it
yPp TIL that one single-story building in Delaware is the legal address for over 285,000 corporations, including Apple, Google, and Wal-Mart.
6PW TIL: That in all 16 seasons of The Bachelor reality dating show, not one couple ever married after the show.
vOoB TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter