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TIL Regis Philbin is a honorary Wu Tang Clan member

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n8Ab TIL Tom Hanks intentionally gained 50 pounds to film the first half of Cast Away. He then took a year off to lose the weight and grow out his hair prior to filming the second half. During the break, the director and most of the crew went off to film What Lies Beneath.
W77a9 TIL in 2010, a Princeton research team discovered that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
9Ml6 TIL that Wilson the volleyball from the movie ‘Cast Away’ won a 'Best Inanimate Object’ award.
0wLaj TIL if you fall into a hot spring at Yellowstone Park you could basically dissolve
NW76 TIL the longest period in US history where President’s without any military experience were elected was between 1909-1945; during the period with both World Wars.