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TIL the NWO theme song was a mashup of Jimi Hendrix samples

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mx96R TIL being overweight, but not obese, results in a lower mortality rate than being in the "normal" range (using BMI as a measure).
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v19ar TIL that former Waffen-SS soldiers guarded Nazi War Criminals during the Nuremburg Tribunal. This was because the soldiers were Latvian conscripts and did not choose to become soldiers out of their own free will, thus clearing their names and allowing their skills to continue to be put to use.
wLjL6 TIL when British cave dive experts went to Thailand to rescue the lost soccer team, they first had rescue four rescuers who were left behind and forgotten when the cave had to be abandoned due to flooding. The men were asleep on a ledge and had missed the call to evacuate.
9YxMX TIL Clancy Brown who plays the sadistic corrections officer Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption also voices Mr. Krabs in Spongebob Squarepants.