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6B9X TIL Ted Nugent pissed and shitted his own pants to avoid the draft.
5K1Q TIL Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative portrayal of keeping fish in aquariums, the use of clownfish prompted The demand for aquariums to triple. Demand was met by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild which devastated Clownfish Populations.
dDlAj TIL Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo after his success in The Godfather but turned it down because he couldn’t understand it.
YpdVP TIL that loneliness and social isolation are as damaging as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and can lead to a a 29% increase in risk of coronary heart disease and a 32% increase in risk of a stroke.
YpDLG TIL that the Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The total payout was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 received $500,000 each. All 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc