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TIL Faith No More singer Mike Patton did all the creature and monster sound effects in the Will Smith movie "I am Legend"

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6EvB8 TIL Potato chip bags are not full of air, but of nitrogen gas. This is done to prevent the chips from oxidizing, which is part of what makes them go stale.
4pgb TIL that ExxonMobil includes the taxes YOU pay at the gas pump AND employee payroll taxes in their PR about how much they pay in taxes.
e5mb TIL: The only freshwater seal lives in the worlds largest freshwater lake in Baikal, Russia. “ It remains a scientific mystery how the seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean.”
Gmeg TIL that Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
yQy9J TIL that chemistry graduate student Barry Kidston gave himself Parkinson's disease after ingesting a compound he synthesized for a legal high. An impurity he neglected is toxic to dopamine neurons, which is responsible for the effect. He was treated, but died of a cocaine overdose 18 months later.