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TIL that Chris Farley was to be the original voice of Shrek, with at least 85% of dialogue already recorded

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9w0D6 TIL Joseph Smith once ran for president, and would've been the first assassinated unelected candidate if his run was taken seriously
AND9g TIL that the act of vomiting involves a complex series of chain-link reactions by your body that connect to a "vomit center" in the brain. The lower digestive system in cases of perceived poisoning shuts down and causes the stomach to convulse in order to bring everything back up the way it came in.
awbGb TIL that Samoa skipped a Friday
P1AKg TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. Claire Howell said she put the autographs in a cupboard as she was worried they would fade.
78ryb TIL During the Machado dictatorship in Cuba, Havana citizens were forbidden to dance the conga, because rival groups would work themselves to high excitement and explode into street fighting.