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TIL that the first man to survive going down Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.

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YwKG TIL Bryan Cranston did most of his own stunts on “Malcolm in the Middle”. A writer on the show jokingly asked whether Cranston would be willing to wear a suit of live bees, Cranston said yes—so they wrote a script around the idea. He ended up covered in 10,000 bees, and only got stung once.
Z8k4Q TIL that everyone senses smell differently
lxVa TIL when researchers from Texas State Univ., who were studying the 17th century pirate Captain Morgan, ran out of funds while attempting to retrieve artifacts from his sunken ships off the coast of Panama, none-other than the Captain Morgan rum company granted them money to continue their work.
KYyV6 TIL over 98% of Korean households have a special kimchi fridge
e00j4 TIL that scientists are growing so-called "mini-brains" inside of rats, meaning we are perilously close to a rats of NIMH situation.