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TIL injuries from opening food packages hospitalize over 60,000 people a year

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WkgYA TIL that Buddy's long belch in Elf (2003) is real and was performed Maurice LaMarche, who voiced Kif in Futurama.
GYy6E TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century conman who sold land in a fictional South American country and then sold tickets on a ship to the fictional country. 200 people arrived in the jungle of Nicaragua and most of them died soon after
j6VQQ TIL that in 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran part of the Comrades Marathon, then went into a mobile toilet to switch places with his twin brother. They won 9th place and the equivalent of about $500, but got caught when a newspaper published photos of them wearing their watches on opposite wrists.
DPEJ TIL psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, “scientific father of ADHD” said seven months before his death in his last interview: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”
KYGrJ TIL that statistically, your partner is likely to have had more lovers than you have