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TIL After his death John Belushi was found to have 26 recent needle marks in his arm

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yQJMp TIL Bernard Fox appeared in two films about the sinking of the Titanic, 'A Night To Remember' (1958) and 'Titanic' (1997). In the latter, he delivered the line "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!"
p84ZZ TIL Climbers burn an average of 10,000 calories per day when ascending Mount Everest. On the day of the summit climb they can burn up to 20,000
WkO9A TIL Reggie Strickland holds the record for the most losses as a Professional Boxer with 276
OJv7 TIL charcoal beetles fly into still-burning forest fires to mate and lay eggs because competition and predators will be low. They sense distant fires using infrared armpit sensors.
0d7Xj TIL In 2012 San Diego's annual Fourth of July fireworks show had a computer glitch, where fireworks programmed for 17 minutes all went off at once (here is one video, there are lots of others; some spectators mad, others ecstatic)