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TIL of streaking, a mechanical technique used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism

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BgbDr TIL George Foreman is NOT the actor known for the quote: "What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?". That actor's name is Gary Coleman, who just happens to also have a grill named after him in the Drake and Josh episode titled "The Gary Grill".
xngg TIL when Forrest Gump gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, and you cannot hear him, he says, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
B7mr TIL that after betraying their mission and informing the FBI about Nazi agents on U.S. soil, the two men who saved America from Nazi infiltration were greeted with life imprisonment, threat of execution, and deportation.
5vD9 TIL of the Brabham BT46B. An F1 car that vacuum sucked itself to the track. It raced only a single time before getting banned, and won by over 30 seconds.
v1Ep7 TIL: The classic fairytale ending, "And they lived happily ever after", differs slightly from country to country. In Russia, the ending is, "They lived long and happily, and died together on the same day."