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TIL Andy Samberg won an Emmy for the song “Dick in a Box”

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5VyEQ TIL that six weeks after the atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki, American service members played a football game among the ruins of the city. The game was dubbed "The Atom Bowl".
JxdB TIL about the blue-ringed octopus, which despite being only 5-8 inches in size, carries enough venom to kill 26 humans within minutes. The bites are tiny and painless, with some victims not aware they were bit until paralysis sets in.
p8Mnb TIL that Walt Disney held the patent for Technicolor for two years, making him the only animator allowed to make color animated films!
jGmN TIL that a man having a seizure on subway tracks was rescued by a stranger. The rescuer jumped down onto the man and compressed him down by laying on him as five cars passed over him.
16OyP TIL about Carotenosis, a harmless condition often mistaken for jaundice, which is caused by the prolonged consumption of carrots (and other carotene-rich foods)