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TIL Lil’ Wayne’s original stage name was Shrimp Daddy.

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Vbk4 TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word “vagina” while teaching reproduction.
rRLEw TIL when Japanese actor Mako Iwamatsu, voice actor of Aku from Samurai Jack, and Iroh from Avatar, died in 2006, many of his voice roles were taken on by soundalike voice actor Greg Baldwin, who's voice was almost indistinguishable.
4krZN TIL For the movie Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Natalie Wood almost did not get the role of Judy because Nicholas Ray thought that she did not fit the role of the wild teen character. Ray was convinced when someone at the hospital called her a "goddamn juvenile delinquent" after her car accident.
v1xWL TIL: the "legs" you see in old high speed footage of nuclear tests are a result of the explosion chasing down the wires of the support tower. The metal of the wire conducts heat faster than the surrounding air, allowing the pulses to move out ahead of the rest of the blast.
am6N TIL there is a Japanese spirit that haunts people by bending over, revealing a giant eye protruding from his butthole