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TIL the black guy who played operator in The Matrix (Tank) is Tommy Chong’s son

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Aoo7 TIL that Weird Al Yankovic has never accepted any outside ideas or titles for a song, with one exception- Madonna herself asked when he was going to turn “Like a Virgin” into “Like a Surgeon”
W7RKA TIL that as of 2015, Garfield is the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, appearing in about 2,570 publications in 80 countries at its peak in 2001. Despite the decline of newspapers in recent years, it's estimated that the cartoon is still read by about 200 million people.
R7mO9 TIL about Precordial Catch Syndrome (AKA Texidor's Twinge), which is when someone gets a sharp stabbing pain in the side of their chest for a few moments, then it disappears with no lasting effects. Why this happens is unclear
D11QD TIL that in 2011, a spicy curry eating contest in Edinburgh ended with two people having to be transported to the hospital
R5Mpa TIL that Klaus Barbie, also known as The Butcher of Lyon, was a Nazi officer during World War II. After the war, United States intelligence services, aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the regime on how to repress opposition through torture.