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TIL that the actors who played Ferris Bueller’s parents fell in love and got married after filming

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oBpdr TIL about UG99, a highly contagious wheat stem rust that can confer a 100% devastation rate to affected crops. It's essentially the Ebola of wheat and efforts are being made to stop it before we reach Wheatmaggedon
x61PD TIL that during an NHL game between Toronto and Carolina in 2018, both of Carolina's goalies got injured so they had to put in a 42 year old maintenance worker from the rink in net. They won the game.
PYYAV TIL that in the 1960's, a Donald Duck cartoon was deemed 'prior art' and used to deny a patent for using foam balls to raise a ship from the water.
a8An0 TIL Fatbergs! Fatbergs are formed when oil, grease and fat poured down drains combine with non-biodegradable items such as wet wipes, nappies and cotton buds. One of them became famous around the world: Fatty mc fatberg! It weighed 130 tonnes and was 250 meters long. This was in Whitechapel, London.
wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.