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TIL Blake Anderson (of Workaholics) proposed to his girlfriend on the spot when he had found out she was diagnosed with cancer.

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V94B TIL Tolkien didn’t mean to change the spelling of “Dwarfs” to “Dwarves”. He said it was a mistake that neither him nor his editors spotted.
Vo4B TIL Tim Roth was J.K. Rowlings first choice for playing Snape. He turned it down to work on Planet of the Apes.
awppM TIL that in Australia there exists “kangatarianism”, which is essentially a vegetarian diet that excludes all meat except kangaroo meat on environmental and ethical grounds.
Y7gJ7 TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew of Air Force One to change the temperature of the cabin. Eventually, they installed a fake control knob for him to 'control' the temperature himself. The president stopped complaining.
QJLR6 TIL there is a condition called chimerism(named after the mythical chimera) where people are born with two set of DNA because they absorbed their twin while still in the uterus.