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TIL There's a kid biting an onion every day until the next Shrek movie

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rj8w TIL Reebok’s first major ad campaign featured two obscure decathletes.They were features in several Super Bowl ads in 1991. The ads pitted them to see who was the worlds greatest athlete and who would win the Olympic title. After being made superstars, one failed to qualify and the other got bronze
OoRBR TIL in 1949, 15 ‘smokejumpers’ were parachuted in to deal with the Mann Gulch wildfire, but they soon had to run for their lives. Only 3 survived, one of whom did so by lighting his own escape fire, to give him a charred patch to enter, so that the main fire went right around him
rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
R5ljQ TIL There is still a WWII Landing Ship in service in the US as a car ferry. LST-510 Buncombe County was commissioned in 1944, landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and currently serves passengers between Connecticut and Long Island. It is perhaps the last D-Day ship still operating.
p8KDO TIL Jonah Hill has used more swear words throughout his films than anyone else, ahead of even Samuel L Jackson. Leonardo DiCaprio's role as the protagonist in "The Wolf of Wall Street" is the most profane character ever and the film itself is the most profane all time with over 700 offensive words.