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TIL the kid who plays Luke from “Modern Family” is actually a genius with who graduated high school at age 13. He also is a Mensa member with a 150 IQ

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w8dW TIL Rick Astley was once thought to be black, and once he performed on stage, people thought he was lip syncing for a black man.
PPAE TIL The actor for Darth Vader (David Prowse) learnt all of Vader’s lines and acted as Vader in the films only for all his lines to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones because Prowse sounded like “some Scottish guy”.
D7GV TIL there is a frog which lets itself completely freeze into a ‘frogsicle’ every Winter. Its heart stills, blood stops flowing, and eyes go white because its lenses freeze. In the Summer it thaws and hops away, good as new!
VmAZ TIL Pearl Jam’s song “Jeremy” is based on a true story where a high school student committed suicide in front of his class.
691G8 TIL about the Scunthorpe problem, which is the unintentional blocking of online content because of a censored string. AOL refused service to Scunthorpe, England because their filters kept censoring the word 'cunt'.