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TIL the show Chuck referenced the Mandela Effect several months before Fiona Broome coined the phrase (time stamp 0:40)

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p8oGZ TIL Ali Hassan Al-Majid was named Chemical Ali because of his contributions to Bloody Friday. This Event was a Chemical attack in Kurdistan in which people who were hit by these gas bombs dropped dead. In some cases, they coughed up green vomit/died of laughter.
BrOQD TIL that Bank of America's digital assistant Erica is named that because "bank of amERICA"
D1OWP TIL that Goliath from "David and Goliath" might have suffered from visual field restriction (bitemporal hemianopsia) as a consequence of the brain tumor that caused his gigantism. He was likely easy pickings for the small and nimble David.
PYL0E TIL In 1988, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole called a studio at 3am and asked if he could record because he had a good idea. The studio owner said yes even though he already closed the studio. 15 minutes later he recorded Israel playing his ukelele and recorded "Over the Rainbow" in one take.
Y7Bk7 TIL the rat in the James Cameron film 'The Abyss' was actually breathing in breathing fluid