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TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981

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mxgkY TIL of the weird, dangerous, and isolated life of the saturation diver where a job might require the diver to stay isolated for weeks in a pressurized metal tube, up to 1000 feet below the surface of the ocean.
DRXP TIL that a judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.
GYQkg TIL A Spider-Man script was wrote by James Cameron in the early 90’s, had the film gone into production, it would have stared Leonardo Dicaprio as Peter Parker, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus, elements of the script were used in later movies.
grZ04 TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”.
jM1M TIL that since 2009, Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been held captive by the Taliban.