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TIL Timothy Treadwell lost out on the role of Woody on "Cheers"

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R77gj TIL that dolphins go on killing sprees when they’re sexually frustrated
PYobg TIL, that in 1987 MLB pitcher Charlie Kerfeld signed a 1 year contract with the Houston Astros for $110,037.37 AND 37 boxes of orange Jell-O, to be used in future pranks.
9YLRX Today I learned, you can legally call gay hair dressers “faggots” in France!
N7oa8 TIL the first dinosaur skeleton discovered in the US was in 1858 in Haddonfield, N.J. After excavations were complete the dig was ignored, became a dump, and was lost until 1984 when a local Boy Scout decided his community project to qualify for Eagle Scout would be rediscovering the original site.
KY6b4 TIL that the Ark of the Covenant, if constructed as described in the Bible, would actually function as an electrical capacitor storing and discharging static electricity