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TIL Adam Sandler won both the worst actor and actress Razzie awards for his movie Jack and Jill

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rR17y TIL In 2012, Pitbull was involved in an advertising campaign with Walmart, in which the Walmart store that received the most Facebook "likes", would have Pitbull visit and put on a show there. An orchestrated campaign for him to end up in Kodiak, Alaska was successful.
ylGv TIL that Tim Curry was originally casted to be the voice of the Joker. His voice was deemed too scary and lost the part to Mark Hamill.
ZeYa TIL that according to scientists, all of the mosquitoes in the world could probably be killed off with minimal permanent ecological damage.
7r7Lp TIL in 1665 the Derbyshire village of Eyam made the remarkable decision to quarantine itself in an attempt to halt the spread of the Great Plague. 260 from 76 different families died, but the plague didn't reach the nearby towns of Sheffield and Bakewell
0m51 TIL Swaziland’s 1 Lilangeni coin is identical in weight and dimensions to the £1 coin and can be used in vending machines. It’s worth £0.06