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TIL Michael Jackson wanted to play Jar Jar Binks using prosthetics.

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E1rGP TIL about Pentti Linkola, the "first ecofascist" who promotes drastic population reduction for the survival of our specie.
QQEe TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.
rRKG4 TIL that Paul McCartney started the recording of "Hey Jude" unaware that Ringo wasn't there and sitting on the toilet. Ringo tiptoed his way back into the studio just in time for the drums to start.
wo0W6 TIL that Valentine’s Day originated from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia. During the feast, priests sacrificed two goats and a dog, then ran around touching women and crops with the bloodstained hides, believing it would increase fertility.
R7WB7 TIL Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. She worked as a cook and presumed to have infected 51 people, three died. She refused to believe she carried the disease. Years after her first quarantine, she changed her name went back to being a cook.