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TIL Elijah Wood voiced Spyro in The Legend of Spyro game series

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8epMX TIL that Finnish NHL player Esa Tikkanen was known for his indecipherable speech called Tiki-Talk or Tikkanese. Wayne Gretzky once remarked, "He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer."
bgj0 TIL its illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.
xVyb TIL a graduate student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics that his professor wrote on the chalkboard for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days.
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kapW TIL that University of Alabama’s visitors locker room is named the ‘Fail’ room after alum & donor James M. Fail, who said “I figured it was the most appropriate opportunity I would ever have to use my name”