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TIL that Dan Akyroyd made a cameo as Ray Stantz (his character from Ghostbusters) in the 1995 movie version of Casper.

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KnRw TIL of 110-year-old Reg Dean whose family attributed his long life to someone in India before WW1 who gave him a muddy elixir and told him “drink this and you’ll live til at least 100”.
pYdNG TIL that a Pilot in 1990 was sucked out of the plane window for 20 minutes and survived.
yVdbJ TIL of "Shit Life Syndrome," a medical term for a form of depression resistant to therapy and anti-depressants, caused by ones life circumstances.
GAVAQ TIL the “One of us, Gooble Gobble” chant (popularized by South Park and Wolf of Wall Street) comes from the 1934 movie Freaks, a film about “sideshow freaks.”
rR5bM TIL the infamous Great Seattle Fire of 1889 also killed 1 million rats, which completely eliminated the town's major rodent problem