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TIL that 2 men in the 1920’s ate nothing but meat for an entire year so doctors could study them … despite consuming high calories and being sedentary all their health markers stayed the same or improved

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XoMP TIL Woody Harrelson’s dad was a contract killer who was thought to be involved in JFK’s assassination
b6Jw9 TIL that when DiCaprio told Cameron "Oh, I don't read" for parts regarding the role of Jack in Titanic, the director shook his hand and said "Well, thanks for coming by." After realizing that he had to audition if he wanted the part, he reluctantly agreed to do so with immediate success. 3:03
6EAZ TIL the first woman to be crowned “Miss America” said of the title, “I never cared to be Miss America. It wasn’t my idea. I am so bored by it all. I really want to forget the whole thing.”
A8Qd TIL “checks” can be written on just about anything and not necessarily on an actual check
mx4yO TIL of William Rankin who survived ejecting from his plane and the failure of his parachute, then spent 40 minutes falling through a several-miles-deep cumulonimbus cloud which featured lightning strikes, a hailstorm and what he described as the "feeling" of thunder.