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TIL Keurig pod inventor regrets having invented it and doesn’t own one.

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epPrk TIL pretzels are supposed to look like someone praying
9Y1R6 TIL One of the more plausible theories regarding JFK's assassination is that he was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent reacting to Lee Harvey Oswald but fell down with an AR-15 in his hand when the follow-car he was in jolted forward
D1o6P TIL the most severe profanities in Italian are related to blasphemy. A very common one is "Porco Dio" (Pig God—i.e. God is a Pig). In one region people say "pota de Cristo" (Christ's cunt). On the Italian version of Big Brother, use of blasphemous profanity was grounds for immediate expulsion.
Z8ZQR TIL that Peter Cullen — voice actor for Optimus Prime, the Predator, and many other voices in film — came up with the Predator's clicking sound because he was coughing blood after voicing King Kong's roars and couldn't do a traditional monster sound.
Y7RnP TIL: The writer of Ben-Hur was a Union General, a Governor, and an Ambassador. He even has a museum in his hometown in Indiana. Lew Wallace seemingly had a crazy and awesome life.