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TIL the guy who ate a whole Cessna airplane was awarded a bronze plaque by the Guinness Book of World Records. He was so honoured that he ate the plaque.

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pY6ZO TIL the first video on youtube "me at the zoo" was actually a d*ck joke and it went over my head as a youth
e4d4 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 4 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize
xVDa1 TIL that Richard Gere has effectively been banned from Hollywood for speaking out against China
OZo6 TIL John Wilkes Booth strategically chose to shoot President Lincoln during what was widely considered the funniest line of the play, so that the uproarious laughter would muffle the sound of his gunshot.
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