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TIL Curtis Armstrong who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, also voiced Snot in American Dad.

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LdeQ TIL that US Labeling Law allows any prepared food that is under 5 calories to be marked as 0 or “Calorie free”. A packet of Splenda and a can of Diet Coke both have 4 calories.
XEevR TIL Chris Columbus was originally suppose to direct "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," but dropped out because Chevy Chase was difficult to work with. A few weeks later he got the script for "Home Alone," which revitalized his career.
GYX4Q TIL In 1951 Thelma Howard was hired as a maid for Walt & Lillian Disney. Walt would gift her shares of Disney stock every X-mas for the next 30 yrs. She died in 1994 that's when it was discovered she still had all 192,000 shares valued at $9,000,000. It went to disadvantaged kids & her disabled son
0pYR TIL as an April Fool’s Day prank, Sports Illustrated fooled the NY Mets’ fan base by successfully convincing them the team had signed Sidd Finch, a pitching phenom who could throw the ball 168 mph. He learned the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery, under the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa.”
p8jvN TIL while Car & Driver was testing the 1978 Porsche 911SC when it was new, the writer remarked that it could have been the last 911 and the last rear-engined Porsche.