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TIL the shocking origin behind the ‘light a bag of poop on fire on someone’s porch’ joke! (VIDEO)

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Lk6vm TIL that during his Nobel Prize speech, Alexander Fleming warned about the potential for antibiotic resistance with improper use of Penicillin
yVlvV TIL 'cromulent' and 'embiggen' - coined by The Simpsons - have since been added to the dictionary and used in academic journals, respectively
xVB9b TIL there is a Kurdish saying that they have “no friends but the mountains”. This is due to their status as a stateless minority and frequent betrayal by their allies.
P10ne TIL that when Jose Alfredo Jimenez, the best songwriter that Mexico has had, knew he was going to die, he wrote the song "Gracias" and sang it to his public despite suffering from cirrhosis.
LQbEv TIL the "Pizza The Hutt" suit for the movie Spaceballs weighed about 25 pounds and was made with a fiberglass undershell, a foam latex skin, steam jets, hoses, pancake batter, and pizza toppings. It was so uncomfortable that the original actor who wore it refused to get back in it for reshoots