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TIL there were chips made with Olestra that caused many to run to the restroom

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Y71Y7 TIL that voice actress Dionne Quan, noted for roles like Trixie Tang in Fairly OddParents, is legally blind and has all of her scripts written in braille.
loEl5 TIL that the "tires" on the Apollo lunar rovers were made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire with titanium treads to keep them from sinking into the lunar soil. The tracks they left are only 1/2" deep.
vPbGx TIL Madonna turned down a role in The Matrix, one of the biggest regrets of her career
P118n TIL: Gastroliths are rocks swallowed by some animals that remain in the digestion track to aid in digestion
8aRZX TIL In 1956 writer Harper Lee received an envelope from family and friends with a year’s salary in it. It read “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She wrote To kill a Mockingbird which won the Pulitzer prize and sold over 30 million copies worldwide