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TIL Jim Carrey is a metalhead, and requested Cannibal Corpse to play in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. He even got on stage and sang with them.

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Merkm TIL The original voice of Piglet from 'Winnie the Pooh' died one day after the original voice of Tigger
M71x7 TIL some bacteria evolved a needle-like structure for injecting other cells with special proteins. Type III secretion system , as it is called, is still poorly understood and we don't fully know how bacteria make them and how the needle itself works.
4k8Bb TIL of Meigs Field, which was destroyed one night in a clandestine mission by the chicago mayor.
kJwOm TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.
kA9m TIL a professor at Princeton found that our brains sometimes process images of people who are poor or homeless as if they were not humans but things.