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TIL the famous Napoleon Dynamite dance scene was spontaneously improvised at the last moment when the producers had no money left and only 10.5 minutes of film roll remaining.

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VM96D TIL that Civil War soldiers patrolling the Rappahannock River once engaged in a Christmas truce. On that day in 1862, greetings were shouted back and forth, and supplies were exchanged via toy boats: Northern coffee, sugar and pork for Southern corn, tobacco, and persimmons.
8eAgL TIL that scientists thought Rhizocophala, a group of parasitic barnacles, were hermaphroditic, as many other barnacles. But then they discovered the "testes" were actually males living inside the females.
KOPnR TIL when a person is frequently exposed to cold water and wind, they develop bony growths inside their ear canals. If left undealt with, the growth will completely block the ear canal and cause significant or total hearing loss.
6WW7 TIL that a man lived one year following the rules of the bible literally, in part out of concern with the rise of religious fundamentalism.
xVvZo TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish teacher who shouted the word "quiet" at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.