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TIL John Candy, Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy had voice acting roles in Heavy Metal, the 1981 adult animated film. Candy played multiple roles; Ramis' character yells "nose dive!" and snorts "Plutonian Nyborg" while co-piloting a spaceship; and Levy played crooked space captain Lincoln F. Sternn

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gMveW TIL the Apollo astronauts left behind 96 bags of urine, feces and vomit on the moon. The bags were left behind to make room for lunar dust and rocks the astronauts brought home to Earth.
kJAQm TIL the Nationals (MLB baseball team) began the 2019 season with a record of 19–31, with their chances of winning the World Series at 1.5%. The Nationals went a perfect 5-0 in elimination games during the playoffs, all of which were come-from-behind victories, the first team in MLB history to do so.
4Xmvw TIL Adam Walker was protected from a great white shark by a pod of dolphins while swimming to raise money for dolphin conservation. About 10 dolphins surrounded him for about 1 hr in Cook Strait, 6th leg of the Oceans Seven: a marathon of 7 long-distance open water channel swims around the world.
a8BwZ TIL when 22-year-old nanny Marissa Mowry announced she was pregnant, the 11-year-old she was babysitting told his mom it's his son. A DNA test confirmed he was the father and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
VM4wG TIL in 1590 there was a Hungarian noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, aka Countess Dracula. She has the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer of all time. The highest number of victims cited during her trial was 650, most of them servant girls aged 10 to 14 years