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TIL Phil Hartman was in talks with The Simpsons producers to create a live action film starring Troy McClure. You might remember him from such self-help videos as “Smoke Yourself Thin”, and “Get Confident, Stupid.”

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LEdp TIL the US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
W7Vwo TIL that wasps can build nest of 7 meters long.
b9LB0 TIL that cities used to have 'ugly laws.' People were fined $1 to $50 per day if they were deemed 'too ugly' to go out in public. The last Ugly Law wasn't rescinded in Chicago until 1974.
8ao4b TIL about Jaime Escalante. He was able to help hundreds of students to pass the AP calculus test in a school where almost no students went to college. He was forced to leave the school due to death threats and intimidation from other teachers.
JY8v TIL most of these “ugly fish” posts on reddit are actually just pictures of sculptures.