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TIL Horses can roll over on their backs without suffocating like a turtle

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OoYgR TIL Marcel Marceau first used mime was during WWII to keep Jewish children quiet while he helped them escape from occupied France to neutral Switzerland
Dyxr TIL Pepsi’s progressive president in the 1940s led a marketing campaign that put African Americans in a positive light, cornering an untapped market and taking advantage of Coca-Cola’s hesitance to hire black workers.
6Egv8 TIL that in "Man on the Moon", Jim Carrey and Jerry Lawler had an actual feud. Carrey spat in Lawler's face and got him fired. When Lawler was rehired for the Letterman segment, he retaliated by slapping him as hard as he could - much harder than he slapped the real Kaufman during their fake feud.
GRPE TIL in 1961 a b-52 broke apart mid air over Goldsboro, North Carolina causing two nuclear bombs to fall. One parachute functioned properly, that bomb survived. When the other bomb hit the ground 5 out of 6 safety devices malfunctioned, a single switch prevented a nuclear explosion.
xOyb TIL The town of Harrogate, UK has been ranked as the highest per capita hazardous drinkers and pornography watchers in Britain, but also the happiest.