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TIL: John Lovitz has had a long running feud with Andy Dick over Phil Hartmans death

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87pK TIL Some of competitors at the first modern Olympic games (1896) were tourists who happened to be in Athens.
gMnE4 TIL a 39 story building in Seoul was evacuated after tremors were felt on the top floors. Instead of an earthquake, it was found that an exercise class on the 12th floor was playing Snap!'s "The Power", which happened to match the building's resonant frequency and caused it to violently shake.
KOZbG TIL The Earth loses hundreds of tons of oxygen to space. This happens at places near the poles, called polar cusps where the solar wind can collide with Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily the process will take billions of years to strip away the atmosphere completely.
gpPy TIL; Bistro is not French for Cáfe, but the word Russian cosacks would shout at French waiters, meaning “quickly”
W718 TIL Ernest Hemingway used to machine gun sharks to stop them eating his catch and that in 1938 he established a world record by catching seven marlin in one day.