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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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4X0Ma TIL that the fourth funnel on the Titanic was fake. It was for appearances only: it made the ship look bigger. It was not connected to the charcoal ovens, but it was connected to the first-class smoking room, making it a sort of oversized kitchen hood.
9Y9yQ TIL penguins can drink saltwater because of glands near their eyes that remove salt from their bloodstream and then they can sneeze out the extra salt.
OogPa TIL of Elizabeth Swaney, a completely average skier who managed to compete in the Olympics by cleverly manipulating the system
jG5v TIL there is a real life “Van Wilder” who attended his university for 16 years and did not graduate despite having enough credits completed for 9 majors and 5 minors.
dDxg9 TIL the highspeed rail in Indonesia is called "Whoosh"