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TIL Dave Chapelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, however turned down the part as he considered it “demeaning” and thought the movie would flop.

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d8YL7 TIL that oranges can spray fire. This happens because inside the peel is a oil called D-limonene. You can use this to help light fire pit or even show of some tricks like a bartender.
xVmDb TIL that since 2009, more people moved to Mexico from the US than moved to the US from Mexico.
wLaLM TIL of Rhoda Abbott, the only woman to survive the foundering of the Titanic. A 39 yr-old divorcee traveling 3rd class with her teenage sons, she was able to climb aboard the swamped lifeboat Collapsible A as Titanic plunged. Her sons were lost.
MeDWA TIL Being struck by lightening is rarely fatal and 90% of people survive a direct strike.
Pmvw TIL That an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to sit in the smelliest area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for animal abuse. “If you puke, you puke.”