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TIL The “Nope, Chuck Testa!” commercial was created by Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning

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kJ5W5 TIL about Landon Jones, a boy from Iowa who, in 2014, suddenly lost the ability to feel hungry or thirsty, refusing to eat and dropping from 104 to 68 pounds within a year. There’s been no update on his progress
jbRj TIL orangutan means the person of the forests in Malay.
XEDN8 TIL that after losing all four engines, the pilot of British Airways flight 9 calmly addressed the passengers, telling them "we have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
GY1kE TIL a woman who claimed to be abducted by aliens in 1961 later recreated a star map she remembered and a statistician concluded she had a 1 in 1000 chance of randomly guessing a valid pattern if she was making it all up. It was valid.
KOYxE TIL the Beastie Boys won a lawsuit against a company for the unauthorized use of their song "Girls" and had the $1 Million settlement donated to a charity supporting education for Girls