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TIL that Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" was so popular that despite the original song "Ridin" winning a Grammy, people would go up to Chamillionaire and say that they heard his version of Weird Al's song

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XEG6j TIL Gary Oldman had roles in so many movies such as Harry Potter (as Sirus Black), Léon: The Professional, JFK, and Hannibal, also featuring in AAA games such as COD: Black Ops as Sgt. Viktor Reznov. His acting and role-playing are so exceptional that many people don't even recognize him in movies.
p8PDb TIL of the Gimli Glider. In 1983, Canadian plane was filled with 22,300 LB of fuel instead of in KG, leading the plane to run out of fuel halfway through the flight. With no fuel or power, the pilot successfully glided the plane onto a racetrack. There were no casualties.
VMlJZ TIL the Finnish cities Turku and Tampere have a fierce rivalry, every year students from Tampere go to Turku's market square and jump, in a joking attempt to sink Turku back below the Baltic sea.
xVx0w TIL According to research, temporary, strong emotions, like sadness we experience from a weepy movie, can significantly decrease our ability to taste or perceive the amount of fat we're eating. People who are mildly depressed and who have elevated body weight may have lower sensitivity to fat.
pJrG TIL although the “ghost pepper,” rated at 1million Scoville heat units (SHUs) was the hottest pepper known to man, it was dethroned by the “Carolina Reaper,” rated up to 2.2million SHUs, in 2012.