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TIL Steve Burns from Blues Clues did the voice over for the dancing guy Six Flags commercial. Part of me wants to believe he was also the dancing guy, but it wasnt.

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kXdE TIL in 2003, a korean taxi driver who was displeased with his medical treatment after a paralyzing stroke, boarded a subway train, carrying flammable liquid, and set himself on fire. Train insulation and interior were very flammable; fire spread, killing 192.
v1B1K TIL that a cat in Wisconsin, saved her human family by pawing at them when they were feeling sleepy and got them out of the house. First responders did a test and revealed that the house had a dangerous level of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
e0Zpg TIL footballer Jimmy Greaves was signed for £99,999 by manager Bill Nicholson, as he didn’t want him to be saddled with the pressure of being the first £100,000 player
oB467 TIL that a crown was added to Liechtenstein's flag after the country found out at the 1936 Olympics that their flag was identical to that of Haiti