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TIL Nicolas Cage Was Once Bailed Out Of Jail By Dog The Bounty Hunter

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opBA TIL there is a mineral called “Cummingtonite” named after its place of discovery: Cummington, Massachusetts
N718N TIL that in 1997, scientists used magnets to levitate a frog.
xVpd5 TIL that in 18th and 19th century Europe, grave robbing became such a pressing issue that elaborate traps were invented by the graveyard workers to kill those who tried to dig up the recently buried corpses.
P10OJ TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981
wLMoW TIL Steve Martin and Martin Short both turned down the role of Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber. Originally the Farrelly Brothers didn't know who Jim Carrey was and were only told that he was "The White Guy" on In Living Color.