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TIL Chris Barnes, vocalist for Cannibal Corpse, told Jim Carrey that his neck movements in the “Fire Marshall Bill” skit freaked him out. Carrey responded “What? This? This grosses you out? All that shit you write and that little thing grosses you out?”

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mx1dE If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” For Longini’s computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
ol1Y TIL that when Fibonacci created his number sequence, he didn’t realise it described all sorts of aspects in nature.
5YEkR TIL the FAA manager who ordered all U.S. flights to be grounded on 9/11 was working his first day on the job that day.
wLvM TIL that Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that played the national anthem of Bhutan when placed on a record player
NX8Wb TIL that when The Karate Kid was in pre-production, Crispin Glover was considered for Johnny Lawrence before William Zabka got the part.