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TIL Steve Harvey (host of family feud) broke down in tears when he was re-united on live TV, by surprise, by the couple who gave him a head start in his comedy career. He was looking for them for years.

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Wkylo TIL Lays marketed a low calorie "WOW" brand of chips that made consumers crap their pants. The main ingredient, Olestra, is a fat substitute which allows for frying without calories being added. The problem is your body can't absorb it. Consumers suffered from cramping, diarrhea, and anal leakage.
wLmQW TIL there is a gibberish "script" called pseudo-Arabic that can be found on 10th to 15th century Christian European art, where artists tried to fake Arabic, probably mistakenly linking the Arabic script to the script and language used in Jesus's time.
GxJ1 TIL Bryan Cranston wore a suit of 10,000 live bees while filming an episode of Malcolm in the Middle. He was only stung once.
LQXV9 TIL: The actress who voiced Lilo also played Samara from The Ring
aAXo TIL in 1486, Spanish mathematician Paolo Valmes was allegedly burned at the stake for claiming to have solved the quartic equation because it was a against the will of God “such a solution (is) inaccessible to human understanding”