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TIL Jamie Hyneman, co-host of MythBusters founder of M5 Industries, was a problematic child who ran away at 14 and hitchhiked all over the country before becoming the silent walrus we all know today

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ANor7 TIL Foie Gras is produced by forcefully overfeeding ducks increasingly larger amounts, via tube and funnel attached to their esophagus, until their liver becomes enlarge 6-10 times its original size.
OJlL TIL that in 2004 after the airing of South Park’s “Trapped in the Closet” Matt Stone and Trey Parker were followed and investigated by the Church of Scientology.
xV6Ww TIL Matthew McConaughey's brother, Rooster McConaughey, named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year
vNm7 TIL that Superb Fairy-wrens teach their eggs a ‘secret password’ that the young can sing when they hatch. Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don’t learn the password) go hungry!
PYbdL TIL that braille was originally invented by the French Army out of necessity after soldiers were being killed because they used lamps after dark to read combat messages. Soon after, Louis Braille, an eleven year old blind boy simplified it into what we use today.