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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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9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.
mAWp TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8’ square wooden raft. When rescued he was told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply replied “I hope no one will ever have to break that record.”
8e998 TIL that Presidents Day is still officially known as Washington's Birthday
KGNw TIL that despite basing himself in Australia for most of his life, Russell Crowe was denied Australian citizenship twice, in 2006 and 2013 because he had spent too much time in other countries.
dDZM7 TIL the Quantel Paintbox is a computer released in 1981 that revolutionized the production of television graphics. The initial list price was a quarter of a million dollars.