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TIL in “Team America”, originally, Matt Damon was going to be portrayed as intelligent and articulate, but when they saw the puppet, they noted that it made him “look retarded” and decided to portray him as such.

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8ebRG TIL that our use of "Nuclear Power" in "Nuclear Power Plants" is simply used to just boil water.
MV1W TIL Only 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell the odor that asparagus gives urine.
6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
R5k61 TIL that since 2000, only 2 bestsellers have scored higher than 9th-grade readability.
l7GZN TIL Tommy Cooper was a Welsh magician/comedian whose shtick was "a clumsy magician messes up his tricks". He had a massive heart attack, collapsed and died on stage during a live broadcast, in front of 12 million viewers, with studio audience laughing at what they thought was just one of his acts.