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TIL about black supremacy

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nWpmG TIL: The number one top grossing movie that never hit #1 during its release was 2023's Oppenheimer
awk4A TIL that Jeopardy was canceled twice before the current incarnation of the show. It ran for 11 years before it was canceled & the reboot only lasted 3 months. Alex Trebek was a producer who made the show "his own" leading to it's current & longtime success.
WDeA TIL that a man named Ben Carpenter got the ride of a lifetime when his electric wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for several miles at about 50 mph.
nM7B TIL that one of the dangers of working in a tryworks (a furnace in the whaling industry) is that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man
X0MRE TIL that 1 in every 1500 humans have VGP, or Voluntarily Generated Pyloerection (Goosebumps), and can activate the sensation without external input.