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TIL in 1995 Chris Farley crashed a House Republican Meeting and did his impersonation of Newt Gingrich

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erp5 TIL a man sued Blue Man Group claiming he suffered permanent damage to his esophagus when the performers shoved a camera down his throat. It was revealed that it was a camera trick and nothing entered the mans mouth as the live footage was actually a pre recorded medical video
v1R9x TIL that Jehovah’s witnessed believe Satan was cast down to earth on October 1, 1914 and that only 144,000 will enter Heaven. The rest of the righteous will be resurrected and enjoy life after death in a cleansed planet after Armageddon.
oRloA TIL about a black Alaskan wolf named Romeo who loved to play with dogs, was friendly with humans, got killed by poachers who got a slap on the wrist thanks to Alaska’s lax laws on killing wolves, and is on display at a permanent exhibit at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau
j6jPn TIL that the 1963 Elvis Presley film "It Happened at the World's Fair" came about after Albert Rosellini, the Governor of Washington, suggested to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives that they make a movie in Seattle, Washington, which served as the site of the Century 21 Exposition.
grM77 TIL one of London’s hidden rivers runs over a tube station, Sloane Square, held inside an iron conduit built in the 19th century.