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TIL Jim Carey: The mask, Ace Ventura, and Dumb & Dumber all came out in the same year (1994)

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RrM8 TIL that electronic musician Aphex Twin owns a tank, which he acquired through a ‘shady kind of exchange’ - “It’s easy to get carried away when you’re raving down the thoroughfare in a steel-hulled tank…. You don’t even have to signal, people simply get right out of your way.”
x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.
W7M8o TIL that at any given second there is a body-wide war being fought amongst germs in your body.
VBplZ TIL that a fan-made music video for the song Sail by AWOLNATION has 370 million views, over 100 million views more than the official music video
wgaY TIL that in 1382, a French bookseller named Nicholas Flamel claimed to have transformed lead into gold after decoding an ancient book of alchemy. True or not, historical records show that Flamel did come into considerable wealth around this time, and donated his riches to charity.