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TIL Rich LeFevre holds the world record for eating 6 lbs of SPAM out of the can in 15 minutes

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Me680 TIL Damon Wayans was a guest star in the shows Happy Together (episode title, "Like Father, Like Son" and Happy Endings (episode title, "Like Father, Like Gun"), both times playing the father of his real son, Damon Wayans Jr.
kJAJ4 TIL William Henry Harrison, the US president with the shortest tenure (31 days) also had the longest inauguration speech (2 hours). This means 0.2% of his presidency was devoted to his inauguration speech, an unparalled ratio
N7lm6 TIL that East Germany had an entire political party for former Nazis
OoNvY TIL that the 334 survivors of the USS Arizona sinking can choose to be buried on board the ship--and several dozen have done so.
NX8dQ TIL a scene from a Season 1 episode of Pokemon, in which Pikachu stops and explodes a wave of missiles (in cyberspace), had animation effects that triggered seizures for 685 children, 150 of which were hospitalised.