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TIL that in Love Actually Olivia Olsen's voice sounded so good when she sang "All I Want for Christmas Is You" that the director made her train her voice to sound more "believable" so people didn't think she was just lip syncing over Mariah Carey's original track.

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1xpD TIL that in 2001, a Norwegian container ship rescued 438 refugees in open ocean between Indonesia and Australia. The ship was then refused entry into Australian waters, but entered anyway. Australia then sent troops to board the ship.
eeMD TIL that downtown Milwaukee has a strip club called “Art’s Performing Center” located right next to the “Performing Arts Center”
5YD9n TIL about autological words ("English", "parasyllabic", "unhyphenated") which describe themselves, and heterological words ("long", "hyphenated", "monosyllabic") which do not describe themselves. "Heterological" itself cannot logically be autological or heterological: The "Grelling–Nelson Paradox"
oALL TIL an orphan from Uganda, who spent his youth as a human scarecrow on his abusive uncle’s farm, ran away at 14. With the help of a charity called YES Uganda, he has since earned 2 degrees, started a biotech company, founded a non-profit, and given a talk at TED.
pYnlN TIL that carriers of Phenylketonuria, an inherited genetic disorder of the metabolism, are protected against the fungal toxin Ochratoxin A that occurs in grains. This accounts for the persistence of the allele in certain populations: it confers a "selective advantage."