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TIL Rick Bayless, Skip's brother, is a world-renowned chef and has been on many cooking shows

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AD6oa TIL Al Matthews (actor), who portrayed GySgt Apone in Aliens, was an actual U.S. Marine with 13 combat awards including 2 Purple Hearts. Matthews, who was also the inspiration for Sgm Johnson in the Halo series, was one of the first African American Marines in Vietnam to be promoted to Sergeant.
8eAG TIL that, statistically, if humans were biologically immortal, the average lifespan would be around 600-700 years.
6EePW TIL in 1998 an 8 year old boy was electrocuted using a bathroom hand dryer at Pizza Hut in Mississippi. The hand dryer had no ground wire and multiple customers had previously complained about being shocked.
KYrZa TIL that Leon Jackson, who won The X Factor UK in December 2007, had only been singing for 11 months at that point
wLlZ7 TIL Darwin's Beetle (Chiasognathus grantii) have giant mandibles (more than 1/2 their body length) they use to battle males as they climb trees where females are found for a chance to mate. The mandibles can hook rivals under the wings to throw them off the tree, as well as the female after mating.