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TIL Leslie Nielsen used to carry a fart noisemaker everywhere he went.

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rYLy TIL there are places in Australia called Tittybong, Bacon Bay and Milkshake Hills.
VBgo0 TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
QJKVM TIL about Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who took 11 commandos into the fjords aboard a fishing boat full of explosives to sabotage the Nazi's. His feet froze solid and an avalanche buried him. He used a knife to amputate his frostbitten toes. His escape made him into a Norwegian national folk hero
M7ZJm TIL Edvard Grieg’s “Morning Mood” wasn’t written to paint a Norwegian sunrise. The music actually accompanies a scene in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt where Peer wakes up stranded in the Moroccan desert (surrounded by acacias and palm trees) — not a Scandinavian fjord.
4XnYb TIL that until 1948 the United Kingdom permitted Plural Voting, which allowed people with a university education and property owners to vote multiple times in the same election.