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TIL Chris Farley was hired to voice Shrek and had finished 80-90% of his recording sessions at the time of his death

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OGaJY TIL that Alexander Fleming was Knighted and awarded the Nobel Prize for essentially blowing his nose and then several years later letting something go moldy
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