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TIL “Weird” Al Yankovic turned down $5,000,000 dollars for a beer sponsorship, because he felt morally obligated to be a better role model.

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epaQE TIL Jennifer Connelly had one of her fingers partially bitten off by a chimpanzee during the filming of Darío Argento's 1985 film Phenomena
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