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QNvWE TIL that Pérez Prado's cover of the Neapolitan song 'Guaglione' became #2 hit in the UK in 1994, decades after its release, when Guinness used it in an advert.
LQYbV TIL of the 3:16 game. In a Broncos/Steelers playoff game, Tim Tebow wrote "John 3:16" on his eyeblack. He would go on to have 316 passing yards and 31.6 yards per completion. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception on 3rd-and-16, and the Steelers had 31 minutes and 6 sesconds in time of possession.
jnjN TIL Andre the Giant died in his sleep while in Paris for his fathers funeral. His father passed 12 days before.
Xk9k TIL there is a drinking game based on the movie, Withnail & I, in which you have to match, drink for drink, the character Withnail. This would possibly be fatal.
A8O4 TIL of “canary trapping”, a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.