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TIL: In the film “Foxcatcher” Channing Tatum’s mirror-bashing scene wasn’t in the script, Tatum got so into the role he frantically headbutted a real mirror and cut his head.

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M7kK TIL that today, from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm on October 23, is unofficially recognized as Mole Day by chemists (in honour of 6.02x10^23 atoms present in one mole of a substance).
11v4 TIL that a 1976 episode of Sesame Street featured The Wicked Witch of the West becoming the crush of Oscar the Grouch and threatening to turn Big Bird into a feather duster, among other things. The episode was aired only once because “the threat of the witch’s power [remained] in children’s eyes.”
XEnmE TIL Learned that things emit radio waves (also known as millimeter wave) above certain temperature.
EgyRX TIL The Rock created The People’s Elbow in an attempt to get The Undertaker to break character
8a1wL TIL a 1947 Gallup poll revealed 45% of the US thought Hitler was still alive