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TIL that Big Cats go Wild for Calvin Klein Cologne.
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TIL James Blunt recorded his first album while living with Carrie Fisher. ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was recorded in her bathroom!
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TIL that during filming of 1973’s “Superteams”, an ABC show pitting famous athletes against each other, heavyweight champion Joe Frazier nearly drowned during a swimming event. He signed up despite not knowing how to swim.
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TIL Girl Scout Brownies are not named after the dessert, but rather the Brownie goblins of folklore who at night aided in small tasks of the home. Harry Potter house elves are also based off of these Brownie goblins.
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TIL The all-time heat record of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Death Valley on July 10, 1913 is highly contested, being described as "essentially not possible" given the conditions at the time by some meteorologists and especially questionable as it was recorded by an untrained and eccentric observer.
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TIL that during a dissection of a mother tiger shark, a scientist was reaching into the birth canal and was bitten by a tiger shark embryo, which are notoriously cannibalistic. This is the only recorded instance where someone was bitten by an unborn animal.