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TIL TV host Soupy Sales was once suspended for asking his young viewers to send him "little green pieces of paper" taken from their parents' wallets.

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BrkNW TIL comedian Katt Williams was sued in 2012 by fans for "non-performance." He performed a long-winded rant for roughly ten minutes, challenged an audience member to a fight, and angered fans paying upwards of $94.
J7dB TIL in 1957 a Catholic priest produced a concept car designed to be extra safe. Its body was dent, rust, and corrosion proof and the seats swiveled to face rearwards upon collision. It also had hydraulic jacks, crumple zones and a roll cage.
jNlLN TIL If you trace back the DNA in the maternally inherited mitochondria within our cells, all humans have a theoretical common ancestor. A woman, known as “mitochondrial Eve”. All humans today can trace their mitochondrial DNA back to her.
78QBX TIL about Peregrinus Proteus, a second century Greek philosopher who self-immolated at the Olympic games of 165 after reading his own funeral oration.
awBEb TIL that in 2013, rapper Eminem was offered a deal with director Neil Blomkamp to star in the movie "Elysium" as the main protagonist, Max DeCosta. Eminem later declined the offer, because Blomkamp refused to film the movie in Eminem's home city, Detroit. The role was later given to Matt Damon.