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TIL Melissa McCarthy based her “Bridesmaids” character on The Food Network’s Guy Fieri. She even tried to convince the producers to let her wear short, white, spiky hair- but they denied that request, determining that as a bridge too far for the similarities.

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0w6ej TIL: washing your hands with hand sanitizer in hospitals is contributing to the development of deadly superbugs (bacteria)
b94YE TIL nearly 6% of Americans are millionaires. Many live near what have been called ‘wealth-building engines,’ places that have technology, finance and defense. Not one area in the middle of the country make the list.
Y7geG TIL: The recommendation to walk 10,000 steps per day isn't based on science or medicine but was likely made up to help sell pedometers in the 1960's
x69E7 TIL a professional football team from Wales included a clause in a players contract he must have a “physical liaison” with a sheep.
LkxGQ TIL Paul Newman, while attending a small college in central Ohio, began a laundry service out of his dorm room. Newman’s Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was a success, earning the young entrepreneur the nickname “The Laundry Man of T-Barracks” in 1949.