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TIL Chevy Chase is the only SNL cast member to be banned from ever hosting SNL again. “He once suggested a sketch, In 1985, where Terry Sweeney (an openly gay cast member), had AIDS, and the sketch showed viewers how much weight he lost every week.”

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G8PQ TIL while wrestler Hulk Hogan was traveling with tag team duo, the Wild Samoans, whose gimmick was to never speak in public, police found an unregistered handgun in Hogan’s car. Hogan begged the Samoans to come to his defense. The Samoans refused to break character and all three men went to jail.
oe7Y TIL If you would have bought an iPhone in 1991, part by part, it would have cost you US$3.56 million.
p8NGe TIL of the anthropic principle: the idea that any data we collect about the universe is filtered by the fact that, in order for it to be observable in the first place, it must be compatible with the conscious thinking life that observes it. We see, only because we are in a universe that can be seen.
GA97E TIL of the Tel Aviv central bus station - a mega structure that includes a nuclear bomb shelter for 16,000 people. The station was designed to be confusing, so that commuters would spend time shopping. Most of it became completely abandoned, taken over by violent criminals and even a colony of bats.
oBNKA TIL in the event of Britain being destroyed and her government wiped out, there is a safe on four nuclear equipped submarine that contains the Prime Ministers ‘Letters Of Last Resort’. Nobody except the PM knows what it says.