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TIL the first time Vince Vaughn and Jimmy Fallon met, they kicked in a bathroom stall door because they thought it might be Will Ferrell… It was not.

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j66jM TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.

bLJ7 TIL that the world record for the largest number ever counted to belongs to Jeremy Harper. He streamed the entire process online , and raised money for charity. He reached 1,000,000. It took him 3 months.

e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.

W7elB TIL that Dave Grohl is not proficient in reading music and instead relies on aural skills to perform.

bwB7 TIL that renowned author Isaac Asimov once said “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”