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TIL the Onion was nearly sued out of existence by Janet Jackson for running an article titled “Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson”

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BQ7d TIL one 32oz McDonald’s sweet tea had as much sugar as 2.5 snickers bars!
9Yxgr TIL Joey's character in FRIENDS was not supposed to be dumb, according to the original script. It was only when Matt LeBlanc auditioned for Joey, he put a "different spin" on the character, which was liked by the creators of the show.
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.
mxG6y TIL the Red Panda, native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, is the only living member of the genus Ailurus and the family Ailuridae
jN5rN TIL that Doug White, a single engine aircraft pilot with only 80 hours of flight time who was on a chartered flight with his wife and two daughters, successfully landed a twin engine King Air 200 after the pilot had a heart attack.