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TIL Rob Lowe was uncredited in Tommy Boy (1995) despite having a major speaking role because at the time he was contractually obligated to a miniseries of The Stand. Instead of going through legal hoops to get out of it, he essentially agreed to be in the film as a favor to his friend, Chris Farley.

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VB6E0 TIL: This determined California man single-handedly built a 100-foot-long superyacht in the front yard of his desert home. Now a luxury charter, the vessel was cut into seven pieces for sea trials and reassembled at the ocean
b1Qp TIL Papa John sold his car 1983 to start up his pizza company. He later located and bought the car back in 2009.
JYKVk TIL about Rio Rico an American town that was basically forgotten in Mexico and is the last piece of land ever ceded to a foreign power by the United States. It's residents were also granted US citizenship for having been born in the US.
1ad7W TIL male dolphins form alliances and aggressively pursue females to mate. The females frequently "bolted", but only managed to escape 1/4 attempts. Male dolphins sometimes also commit infanticide so that their mothers will come back into estrus. Dolphins also occasionally practice incest.
d8OYK TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.