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TIL Dan Aykroyd has a documentary that is him smoking cigarettes and talking about UFOs for 83 minutes

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4kZPJ TIL Soviet Chess player and musician Mark Taimanov once lost a tournament so badly to Bobby Fischer that he was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel for two years, banned from writing articles, deprived of his monthly stipend, and prohibited from performing concerts
GYEdG TIL Walmart loses about 3 billion dollars a year from theft
e0P54 TIL in 1968 Elton John attempted suicide but was discovered by Bernie Taupin. Upon finding Elton's head in the oven, resting on a pillow, with the gas on low, and all the windows open, Bernie couldn't stop laughing. This event inspired the hit single "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
v1n8R TIL about the swiss battle tank Panzer 68: using the radio at full power would lead to erratic movements of the turret and switching on the heating system could fire the main gun
dDN8Q TIL that a performance artist named Lucky Diamond Rich has held the Guinness World Record for “most tattooed person” since 2006. His body is completely covered in tattoos, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin.