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TIL Leslie Nielsen carried a fart machine everywhere including restaurants, on talk shows as a guest, press interviews, and even on movie sets his entire movie career. It predates his first comedic role in Airplane.

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oDwL TIL that the first person to spot a flying saucer, didn’t himself describe its shape as a saucer. But said the objects moved erratically: “like a saucer if you skip it across the water”. And was misinterpreted by the media.
yQoQw TIL the first canned dog food in the US was introduced after WWI, to help dispose of dead horses. It was sold under the brand Ken-L Ration
pdVp TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to write the Declaration of Independence as they were afraid he would write a joke in it.
ZlPR TIL a British man spent three days pushing a Brussels sprout with his nose to the summit of one of the UK’s tallest mountains: “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself.”
6EayY TIL that historically, polio was not widely fatal. 72% of all infections were asymptomatic; 24% resulted in mild illness; 1-5% resulted in more serious but short-term symptoms. But polio was still feared, due to the <1% of cases that led to permanent paralysis and death in a further 5-30% of them.