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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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PpkL TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons family after his father Homer, mother Marge, and sister Lisa. Bart was an anagram of the word brat.
vP8AK TIL that after attending a Queen concert in LA, Michael Jackson suggested to Freddie Mercury that the band should release "Another One Bites The Dust" as a single. After doing so, the song became a worldwide hit, spending 15 weeks in the Billboard Top 10, and is Queen’s bestselling single to date.
nWdlr TIL about the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962, where uncontrollable laughter spread among hundreds of people in Tanzania, leading to the temporary closure of schools and affecting entire communities.
VMmyD TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna
1avEr TIL Garfield phones have been washing up on a beach in France for over 20 years. A shipping container fell off the cargo ship in a storm and the locals can do nothing about it.