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TIL when Conan O'Brien was bought out of his contract with NBC, he paid 50 stagehands and crew members who were not part of the deal at least six weeks severance pay out of his own pocket.

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KYDGa TIL: That fungi have a range of vital roles from helping plants draw water + nutrients from soil to medicines that can lower blood cholesterol or enable organ transplants. But they have a darker side: devastating trees, crops, other plants across the world and wiping out animals such as amphibians.
8erP4 TIL the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s, Scott Cawthon, was inspired to make the horror game after critics said the cute beaver in his previous title looked like a creepy animatronic—so he leaned into that and built a game where sinister animatronics are the stars.
v14Ax TIL Buddy, the golden retriever that played the original Air Bud, is the same dog that played Comet on Full House. In 1989, his owner originally found him as a stray in the Sierra Nevada. He took Buddy in and trained him to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and hockey.
XEDnr TIL the sea route that Titanic sunk on should have been populated by many other ships, which could have saved victims of the sinking, however, ships transferred their coal to Titanic in port so she could make the date of her voyage, resulting in the area being virtually isolated when Titanic sunk.
x68j1 TIL ALBERTA CANADA IS RAT FREE!