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TIL Nearly every time Paul Rudd has gone on Conan to promote a movie or show he plays a clip from "Mac and Me".

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VMVKm TIL German biologist Stefan Lanka, who believed that measles was a "psychosomatic illness", announced that he would pay 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that measles was a virus. German doctor David Barden proved him wrong and Lanka was ordered by the court to pay the money as promised.
YpR6d TIL of Bobby Dunbar, a 4 year old who disappeared in 1912. 8 months later, he was supposedly found & returned to his family. In 2004, dna proved that the boy wasn’t Bobby. It’s unknown what happened to Bobby & who the little boy who lived as Bobby actually was.
PeMe TIL that in 526 AD, there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for an entire year, resulting in widespread famine and disease. More than 80% of Scandinavia starved to death and 30% of Europe died in epidemics. No one knows the cause.
4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.
PYGeE TIL the South Pacific island of Niue was named "Savage Island" by Captain James Cook, because the natives he saw were painted in what looked like blood (it was actually hulahula, a native red fe'i banana). That name was used until the original name "Niue", meaning "behold the coconut", regained use