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TIL the English voice actors who played Spike and Julia in Cowboy Bebop married each other.

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N75oE TIL of Iqbal Masih, a young boy who was rescued from slavery at a carpet loom. This young activist was assassinated at the age of 12 in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1995 by someone believed to be a feudal landlord and carpet manufacturer.
e0kog TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)
e0ElJ TIL you shouldn’t say “comprised of.” Comprise already means “to consist of”, so the extra “of” is redundant. Instead, try “the machine comprises parts” or “the crew comprised a cook and a cleaner.”
Rexw TIL Rosie O'Donnell spoiled the ending of Fight Club to millions of people just because she didn’t like the film.
9pyQ TIL that Tang, Cool Whip, Pop Rocks and Jell-o were all invented by the same man.