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TIL James Lipton personally chose Dave Chappelle to interview him for the 200th episode of “Inside the Actors Studio.” Chappelles flight to the shows location was delayed, causing the interview to start late at 10:15 p.m. and didn’t end until 1:30 a.m. None of the 750 guests left early.

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gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.
aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.
Z8Xk4 TIL in anatomy, the atlas (C1) is the most superior (first) cervical vertebra of the spine. It is named for the Atlas of Greek mythology, because it supports the globe of the head which is the skull. The atlas is the topmost vertebra and with the axis forms the joint connecting the skull and spine.
grDAA TIL that Montgomery, Alabama, is named after a different, unrelated person than the namesake of Montgomery County even though the city is the seat of the county.
VmmD TIL A Milwaukee man in prison for a fatal shooting, broke out, took on the identity of a dead child and became a successful business man. It all unraveled 33 years later when his wife came across a Facebook post mentioning the dead child.