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Today I learned that the slang word “stan” originates from an Eminem song of the same name, a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan”. The connotation was originally negative.

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4xgJ TIL that after Norway banned Life of Brian for blasphemy, it was marketed in Sweden as “The film that is so funny that it was banned in Norway!”
JZQ4 TIL that it costs $30,000 to get on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A-Listers like Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Clint Eastwood, and Al Pacino don’t have a star because they didn’t pay.
VBkA4 TIL Poachers have resorted to poisoning elephant water holes with cyanide to increase their efficiency. One poacher, Tony Maphosa, killed more than 100 elephants this way before being caught, after four years on the run
KOgPB TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the MCU, saved a cyclist from an attempted robbery by fighting off a gang of muggers in London. He was in an uber when he saw 4 muggers jumping a delivery cyclist. He got out, screamed at the attackers and then dragged them off of the victim.
QJZap TIL Mantan Moreland was almost one of the three stooges that was supposed to replace Shemp Howard after his death