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TIL Chris Farley looked so bad during his final SNL appearance that the episode has never been shown again. He died less than two months later.

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R76B7 TIL While researching service dogs for a novel, Dean Koontz was so taken with Canine Companions for Independence he made donations totaling $2.5 million. As a gift, CCI gave him a serivce dog, which he named Trixie. Trixie Koontz became his pen name when he writes books from a canine perspecitve.
8aEO4 TIL that red velvet cake is really just chocolate cake, where the cocoa powder, vinegar, and buttermilk mixed together creates a chemical reaction to help give the cake a deep maroon color, that is often enhanced by extra food coloring
EMZX TIL that the first pitching machine was built in 1897. It was a shoulder mounted cannon that could shoot baseballs at 70 mph.
neMn9 TIL it has been 27 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley cup. With the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. The last opportunity a Canadian team had to win the cup was in 2011, when the Vancouver Canucks lost in game 7 to the Boston Bruins.
XmMQ TIL on April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.