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TIL that everyone wears Crocs in the 2006 movie Idiocracy because the costume designer had a limited shoe budget, and thought the cheap plastic shoes made by the then startup company were futuristic yet too stupid looking to ever become popular in real life

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PYl6g TIL about Father Francis Gleeson, an Army chaplain during WWI. At the Battle of Ypres, among heavy casualties, he tore off the badges that marked him as a non-combatant so he could take command and hold the line.
DMde TIL Actor Terrence Howard believes 1X1=2 and he currently spends many hours a day constructing models or plastic and wire that he says confirm his belief.
5Yo9P TIL before the Curse of the Bambino was reversed, they placed a Boston cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hired a professional exorcists Father Guido Sarducci to purify Fenway Park; and spray painting a reverse curve street sign on Storrow Drive with "Reverse the Curse"
56lR TIL Isaac Newton invented calculus as fast as a college freshman class learns it
LkWwp TIL There is a 1 in roughly 5.2 to the 61st power chance that if you were to slap a table, all of the molecules in your hand and the table would miss each other and your hand would go through it.