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TIL The kid from the Anti Smoking ad I remember seeing on TV after school was Rob McElhenney (Mac from Always Sunny).

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nOZW TIL that a motorway in Ireland was delayed by 10 years and then rerouted to protect a tree that was thought to belong to fairies.
yQXKp TIL of the kidnapping of journalist David Rohde, who escaped with another captive after eight months by tiring out their captors with repeated games of checkers.
Me0vA TIL when the Israeli military developed their battle rifle, the Galil, they included a bottle opener built into the bottom of the gun. Previous guns had been damaged by Israeli soldiers who kept using their guns to open bottled beverages with their guns.
V9Lk TIL that in 2011, Adam Sandler won the Golden Raspberry Award for BOTH worst male and female actor for his role in Jack and Jill