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TIL that Mel Gibson was born in New York

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E1KXp TIL the ‘Balloon Man’ had constipation since he was 2 and died with over 40lbs of feces in his colon. It’s 8ft long and currently preserved at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
b9NY7 TIL Colonel Sanders (which is a the highest honorary title in the State of Kentucky) of KFC fame sold his company in 1964 for only $2 million dollars ($17 million today). He remained as brand ambassador but complained the company had cut costs and made an inferior product than the early days.
6YgX TIL that the guy who voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob is the bad prison warder in Shawshank Redemption
m8QP TIL Hitler hated being called a Nazi
PxwE TIL actress Hedy Lamarr was also a mathematician and the inventor of frequency hopping spread spectrum, a technology still used for bluetooth and wifi