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TIL the actor for Gaston as Disney World killed himself after accidentally lighting a firework on his head

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e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.
WkY9A TIL NBC rejected a scene of bodies being shown splayed open and hung from a ceiling on the show Hannibal because their butts were visible. Executive producer Bryan Fuller suggested “What if we filled the butt cracks with blood so we couldn’t see the cracks?”. NBC accepted to then show the scene.
vdGL TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.
ZE4Y TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines which states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
5Y0jQ TIL Stanford researchers offered kids 1 marshmallow now OR 2 if they waited 15 mins. Only 1/3 of kids waited—later in life, they had: higher SAT scores, healthier relationships, better job performance, and fewer chronic diseases