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TIL Tom Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future) received the same questions about the movies so frequently, he made a song about them

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LxQZ TIL: The Tallahassee Police Department ( the tow where Florida State University is located) pressured a student, Rachel Hoffman, into being an informant for a drug sting in 2008. Rachel’s TPD handlers lost track of her during the sting. Rachel’s body was found two days later in Perry, FL.
7rxaO TIL that non-sexual procreation is widespread in the animal kingdom. Even snakes, sharks, and lizards are reportedly capable of parthenogenesis, or virgin birth.
joQM TIL the potato chip was believed to have originated in 1853 when a chef had his fried potatoes sent back by an annoyed customer multiple times because the potatoes were “too thick”. He was fed up, cut the potatoes razor thin, and put extra salt on them. The customer, to his surprise, loved it.
xVPVD TIL of the Blackbird: the car that can be whatever movie makers want it to be.
5V51p TIL about Alan Magee, "the Miracle of Saint Nazaire"a B17 gunner who fell approximately 20,000 feet without a parachute, and survived crashing through the skylight at the railway station in Saint Nazaire (France). He survived the war as a POW, and lived until 2003.