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TIL Will Ferrell played on 10 different MLB teams in one day

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81GK TIL the “Double Dare” host and crew “laughed their asses off” when Nickelodeon marketed “Gak” toy slime (named after the “Double Dare” crew’s nickname for their show’s ever-present slime) as the word “gak” was actually a street term for heroin.
bXA0 TIL that Kazakhstan, a former USSR state that has never held a free election, dismantled its entire stockpile of over 1000 weapons in four years and actively leads nuclear disarmament talks.
p8ZbO TIL about Aimo Koivunen, who overdosed on methamphetamine in WW2 while evading Soviet forces and ended up skiing 100km during the night losing his squad, ammunition and food supplies
BaPr TIL the last man executed by electric chair in the U.S. was removed from the death penalty on appeal. Thinking this made him immune, he boasted of his crimes, supplying evidence which allowed him to be re-convicted and then executed.
x65Gb TIL "Chris-R" from Tommy Wiseau's The Room is an Olympic Athlete