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TIL That Snoop Dogg tried to rent out the entire country of Lichenstein for a music video, but was rejected

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YpLGA TIL of Pushball, a game invented in 1894 as an alternative to the "dull" game of football. The ball was 6 ft wide and weighed 50 pounds.
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.
Kgoa TIL that Andrew Carnegie funded an organization whose goal it was to simplify spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevelt began using the reformed spelling in his official communications and tried to get the federal government to follow suit, but Congress unanimously voted to stop him.
KO7vJ TIL that Kevin Clash, the voice & puppeteer behind Elmo (until his resignation in 2012) was also the puppeteer and voice of Master Splinter in the first two live action TMNT movies from 1990 & 1991.
m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.