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TIL; Smoking Near Apple Computers Voids The Warranty

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VDaG TIL: “Shrek” means ‘fright’ in Yiddish
k9A4 TIL when elephants ‘dance’, they’re really mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socialising
BrkQy TIL Zach Galifianakis had a two-week trial run as a writer on “SNL” before being let go. He wrote a sketch with Will Ferrell being the bodyguard of Britney Spears’s belly button that bombed so bad in the writer’s room that Tina Fey put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
KYvDw TIL about the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral, where Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini ceremonially disposed of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas. He had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the FDA after tests suggested the presence of botulism in some canned mushrooms he used on the pizzas.
QJVka TIL that General George S Patton was behind the first automobile attack when hunting down Pancho Villa in 1916.