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TIL During Leslie Nielsen’s funeral in 2010, the “Naked Gun” theme was playing while RCMP officers carried his casket into a hotel near the funeral home.

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W76wo TIL Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari, also founded another company: Chuck E. Cheese
4ADa TIL Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
kY7B TIL: That one UK citizen a week changes their middle name to “danger” via Deed Poll.
7rLlr TIL, "Take Poo to the Loo" was an Indian social media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation.
Br75K TIL Steve Carell was nominated six consecutive times for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the Emmys for his work on The Office, and never won.