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TIL Matthew McConaughey gave up on going to law school in 1993 to go into acting. His breakout movie role came in 1996, as a lawyer.

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pnN TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s only full length novel featured a scene in which a cabin boy named Richard Parker is cannibalized by his shipwrecked crew mates. 46 years later, a real ship wrecked crew actually did cannibalize their cabin boy…who was also named Richard Parker.
XolD TIL The English word “Fart” is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary
6EXkW TIL the city of Houston, Texas has a program where they train citizens to write tickets for handicap parking violations. After taking a course in proper procedure, you are given the authority to ticket anyone you see parked in a handicap spot without a placard.
oBgoK TIL that a man sporting 140 lbs.testicles was unhappy with his removal surgery after the operation resulted in a 1 inch penis
b9Mvp TIL that it is fairly common for hedgehogs to eat their babies and/or reject them.