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TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.

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kjG4 TIL that asthmatics can cough up mucous casts of their own airways.
XEej TIL In 1998 a Japanese reality show locked a naked man in an apartment until he won one million yen worth of prizes through mail-in magazine contests. He was there for over a year.
ANLMo TIL that 1kg of uranium-235 used in nuclear fission creates the same energy as 2.7 million kg of coal
X09bk TIL the "world's most photographed tree," the Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach in California, is held up by wires and cement
amob TIL of ‘Radium Girls’, US Radium, and UnDark, radium paint applied to watches and gauges. Though executives protected themselves, they denied any danger to ‘the girls’ applying UnDark and blamed health problems on syphilis. The 'girls’ died rapidly, their bodies radioactive almost a century later.