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TIL the same actor (Troy Gentile) plays the young version of Jack Black in both Tenacious D and Nachos Libre.

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neZyd TIL about "Aztec Cheese", a fast growing algae, was responsible for the protein needs of the 1.5 million residents of the Lake Texcoco region. Today, it is known as the super food "Spirulina" and is sold in tablet form.
1dD4 TIL Kanye West only started producing music because he had intended on making a soundtrack for his own video game.
W7ZoY TIL about the siege of Dura-Europos, one of history's first use of chemical weapons and tunnel warfare, during the siege the Persians dug tunnels to bypass the Roman walls, Romans dug their own tunnels to reach them and fight them but the Persians released sulphur dioxide in the tunnels, killing 20.
mxNYy TIL that Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life.
0d87R TIL of the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing "automaton" from the 1700s actually operated by a cleverly hidden human. It toured the palaces of Europe, even playing against Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon, who attempted to cheat multiple times, prompting the Turk to swipe all the pieces off the board.