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TIL South Park’s Ike Broflovski has been voiced by 12 different people, most recently Bill Hader

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O4y7 TIL: that the phrase Graveyard shift used to be Gravy-eyed shift but was misheard as the former, it has nothing to do with Graves and refers to be blurry-eyed or tired
d8Pdd TIL that in 1820, an 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts). The tragedy attracted international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his famous 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
v1NZx TIL the Mount Washington Cog Railway was the first mountain climbing railway in the world.
9YdvB TIL The BBFC, the UK's film censorship board, was once forced to watch a 10 hour film of paint drying on the wall before it could give it an age rating. The film was rated as a "U" (Universal) with "no material likely to offend or harm"
KYj9E TIL that Ketchup used to be made without tomatoes.