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TIL Junk e-mail is called spam because early internet users referenced a Monty Python skit. Hormel unsuccessfully sued to prevent companies calling junk mail spam. In 2006 they sponsored Spamalot, embracing the humor of Spam

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ZpPlD TIL a carriage carrying US President Theodore Roosevelt was struck by a trolley that was speeding because its occupants wanted to meet him and were running late. The crash injured Roosevelt and killed his bodyguard & good friend William Craig.
Qjnp TIL that while a person who inherits two copies of a cystic fibrosis mutation has a terrible disease, someone who only has one (a carrier) has an inborn resistance to cholera, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis. This is an example of heterozygote advantage.
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16GP8 TIL A Lot of the movie "Elf" Was Actually Shot in Closed Down Mental Institution
oBdLo TIL In 1973, Bruce Lee's kicks were so fast in "Enter the Dragon", they had to re-film it in slow-motion so it wouldn’t appear fake.