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TIL in 1998 South Park co-creator Trey Parker was offered $1.5M to direct a feature-length Barney the Dinosaur movie

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ZXbY TIL Terry Crews first got an art scholarship to WMU BEFORE he ever played football for the school.
R5a TIL that Ormer Locklear, a WW1 pilot, got out of his plane, diagnosed the problem, and repaired it all while still flying the plane and then did numerous times after that.
6EXG7 TIL Rob Gronkowski hasn't spent any of his NFL salary. He lives off of his endorsements and seems to be a really responsible person despite his party boy image.
R0x1 TIL that a Nazi Weather Station was discovered in Canada in the 1970’s
GYy14 TIL the common fitness target of 10,000 steps/day came from a Japanese pedometer company who gave their product a name that means "the 10,000-step meter” because the Japanese character for “10,000” resembles a person walking: 万. There is no known science behind a goal of 10,000 steps