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TIL Stephen Colbert And Steve Carell are the voices of The Ambiguously Gay Duo.

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J7lV TIL that in Star Trek the voice of the Breen alien race was inspired by Lou Reed’s album Metal Machine Music, which the postproduction sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen’s voices.
BaRr TIL The Jeopardy “Think” music earned Merv Griffin over 70 million in royalties
0rZM TIL Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Lehder bought himself an island in the Bahamas where he put an airstrip which controlled the drugs coming in from South America and entering the US. He became so wealthy he offered to pay Colombia’s foreign debt for amnesty
amnZ TIL when the United States started taxing tires imported from China, China retaliated by taxing chicken feet imported from the United States, costing American poultry farmers $1 billion in sales.
NZRQ TIL Empathy in young people has been declining in the US since the 1980’s, with the steepest decline in the 2000’s.