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TIL Will Ferrell and Adam McKay separated as producing partners because McKay cast John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss in the HBO series 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' without telling Ferrell first, who had already cast in the role. Ferrell found out he'd been replaced directly from Reilly.

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PYOwG TIL that the CIA has a secret Heart Attack Gun weapon that can shoot a small poison dart into a person to cause a heart attack almost instantly.
LQgMZ TIL that Romans used to use urine in clothing dye and even to remove stains from clothes!
ZpMrR TIL that ~10% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu comes from royalties from 'tv' adresses, which is an abbreviation for "Tuvalu".
epjvb TIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit card, to be photographed by the plane. 20-30 people fell for the prank and showed up at the stadium.
16wM7 TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.