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TIL megachurch pastor Ed Young drove a Ferrari 458 Italia on stage during service, parked it, got out, and said: “God gave me a Ferrari because I AM a Ferrari.”

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Zp8e4 TIL Timothy Olyphant was originally offered the role of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and The Furious. Olyphant passed thinking the movie would bomb at the box office and the role was given to Vin Diesel.
QrN9 TIL the scientists (and everyone else) in Antarctica have ‘heedless sex’ (16,500 condoms are distributed to 200 people spending the winter), taking 'ice wives’ and 'ice husbands,’ and also binge-drink, do drugs and generally go completely nuts, and is pretty much the only reason anyone goes back.
JjN1 TIL The Economist named Hank Hill as one of the wisest people on television.
DMYr TIL that sand dollars are the skeletons of flattened burrowing sea urchins
X0p46 TIL of operation Abscam: an FBI sting operation in the late 70s which resulted in the resignation of 1 US senator and 5 US congressmen and the expulsion of a 6th congressman for corruption. Congress made it impossible for the FBI to run similar sting ops in the future (Civiletti Guidelines, 1981)