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TIL That Ian Thorpe, one of the worlds greatest ever swimmers, is allergic to chlorine and that as a youngster used to have to swim with his head out of the water.

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jw1N TIL Oscar Winners in the past twenty years have thanked Harvey Weinstein 5 times more than God.
8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.
4X74R TIL that Cindy Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a cover of a 1979 song by Robert Hazard.
4XKYN TIL that although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
1BVd TIL that the guy who wrote lines like “What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!” and “tonight… Hell FREEZES over” among so many other excellent puns for the classic film Batman and Robin is actually an Oscar winning screenplay writer.