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TIL Leslie Nielsen regularly carried a fart machine with him and often used it during televised interviews

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Zp4DD TIL that the theme songs for TGIF classics Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, and Step By Step were written and performed by the same person.
k8Qd TIL Fa Ping, the name Mulan chooses while posing as a man, is a pun on the chinese expression for “Eye Candy”
yQPDe TIL In January 1979, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing a principal and a custodian at an elementary school in California. When asked why she did it, her reply was "I just don't like Mondays."
kJ4Xe TIL that in 1957 the US launched Project Pluto, a plan to design and build a "doomsday" cruise missile (SLAM) that would be nuclear powered and carry multiple hydrogen bombs, spreading radiation along its path from the engine. It was loud enough to kill people in its path with sound.
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