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TIL Nicolas Cage was once stalked by a mime.

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Lkvdp TIL Charles Darwin was the first to put wheels on his office chair in order to get to his specimens quicker, inventing the modern office chair
YpNKB TIL over $200 million in gold and silver bullion was recovered from underneath WTC-4 following the September 11th attacks.
xVPyg TIL Due to declining bee populations in Sichuan China from excessive pesticide use, farmers now have to pollinate their crops by hand using chicken feathers.
9YLGM TIL 3 men were shipwrecked in the south Pacific; buoyed by life vests, they swam to the deserted island Fanadik. After 3 days on the island, a US Navy plane spotted a fire the men made and then saw the men waving life vests next to palm fronds that spelled H-E-L-P.
95dB TIL there have been an estimated 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro by the United States, including poisoned cigars, infected scuba equipment, a pen rigged with a hypodermic needle containing poison, etc. He stated “if surviving assassination attempts was an Olympic event, I’d win gold”