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TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) wrote the famous “Matt Foley Motivational Speaker” SNL sketch.

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VEMm TIL that a rat and a human were hooked up to a virtual reality simulator to interact with each other. The subjects were 12 miles apart and the human did not know the rat was a rat.
5VP5R TIL in the 1930’s, Mussolini, outlawed pasta. Instead of producing strong Italian soldiers, the pasta weighed the youth down and made them lazy. The real reason was that Mussolini wanted to sell more rice, a staple crop in his home region in Northern Italy, which caused a split with the South.
9Y6Zm TIL Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife who had cancer. After his wife killed herself, after finding out about the affair, Dr. Seuss married his mistress
djv7 TIL after Officials in Richmond, California, learned that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided to pay them to behave. With individual coaching, health care coverage and a monthly stipend, murders decreased from 62 to only 11 last year
4kyXa TIL the San Diego Zoo is the only other place you can see a Platypus in captivity outside of Australia