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TIL: Chris Farley was Originally The Voice of Shrek and had recorded 85% of his lines before he passed away.

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R7n48 TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
kJdZ1 TIL the Giffen Goods. These are poor-quality goods that defy standard economic behavior and whose demand increases as prices rise. Despite the substitution effect, the income effect of higher prices leads to greater consumption of the commodity.
WXK9 TIL a hidden tributary of London’s river Thames called the Tyburn has a short exposed stretch running through an antiques shop. There are golden fish living in the stream.
BrgNb TIL that using a countdown in rocket launches was invented as a dramatic device for a 1920s movie, then later borrowed by NASA for real life launches.