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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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GYJbG TIL of MLB player Lenny Dykstra who paid a team of private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on MLB umpires. He used the information to leverage a more favorable strike zone during games.
41xw TIL the cast of Scrubs created their own version of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
j6PJM TIL Brian Patrick Carroll, the guitarist known professionally as "Buckethead", has recorded over 300 studio albums, four special releases, one EP, and has performed on more than fifty albums by other artists.
mxBp TIL that before 1774 in England it was possible to take out life insurance on a complete stranger, go kill them, and collect.
loxMr TIL that a 1996 federal law allows restaurants to donate leftover food without getting sued, and that nobody has ever filed a lawsuit against a restaurant over donated leftovers