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TIL Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen starred in an Oscar winning film, escaped a Nazi Death Camp, won $64,000 on a game show and escaped blizzard shelter with a chisel made from frozen excrement

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awL5A TIL Myka Stauffer is the worst mom on youtube (rehomes adopted child)
ax0b TIL that this young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book.
epdeg TIL that Michael Jackson organized a supergroup, in a similar fashion to 'We are the World', for the September 11th attacks, that was never released. The reasons "What More Can I Give" was shelved vary as to why, but could have been because of his then-campaign against Sony Music.
Y7ppZ TIL Willem Dafoe actually performed oral sex on Madonna in the movie Body of Evidence.There was no body double.
7rVaO TIL that a French man invented a pill that perfumes your farts to smell like roses, violets, or chocolate. 60 pills sell for around $22.00 and he has also developed scented fart pills for flatulent dogs.