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TIL, The nerd who kissed Bar Rafaeli on the Go Daddy commercial is known as Jesse Heiman, the worlds greatest extra, and he was in Old School, Transformers and Van Wilder.

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KYv5a TIL World War I trenches were constructed of sandbags, planks of wood, plaited wicker, tangled barbed wire, or even just mud. The trench systems on the Western Front were about 475 miles long, extending from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps, though not in a continuous line.
AD9Wl TIL: The 2015 French Scrabble champion spoke no french, and instead memorized the French Scrabble dictionary 9 weeks before the tournament.
vnPj TIL that there is a disease called Witzelsucht, that some call the Joker Disease. It can “cause people to make jokes, puns, and engage in what could be considered inappropriate conversation and/or behaviour.”
RX86 TIL, at 23% California has the highest poverty rate in the US despite having an economy that ranks top 10 in the world.
GYaBQ TIL that the destruction wrought by hurricanes results in lizards with strong toes, thanks to natural selection