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TIL when professional wrestler Brian Pillman was to be "fired" by the WCW as part of a wrestling storyline, he asked that he be faxed a real release form to increase the realism. Since all the proper signatures were on it, he used the document to escape his contract and wrestle in the WWE instead

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oo9W TIL that the urge to sneeze when looking at a light source is actually a genetic trait called “Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-ophthalmic Outburst” or ‘ACHOO’ and afflicts up to 35% of the world’s population.
xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years
Xr5r TIL - School Buses Are Yellow because color yellow gets noticed faster than any other color. Studies have shown that humans notice the color yellow 1.24 times faster than another eye-catching color, red. Yellow is also particularly visible in the early morning and evening light.
8aZJZ TIL pole dancing is a 1000 year old sport in India called Mallakhamba
RGba TIL that a chimpanzee has been observed wearing a piece of grass into her ear, with no apparent function. After other members of her group started imitating her, researchers realised to be in presence of the first fashion statement observed in other animals.