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TIL that Steven Spielberg has been thanked in more Oscar speeches than God

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VvW0 TIL that some bars will paint quarters red and give them to employees so they can put the coins in the jukebox. Since patrons only put money into a jukebox if there is already music playing.
8eAyL TIL Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Skyrim’s Paarthurnax share the same voice actor
O6Z7 TIL a Chernobyl fireman who claimed they didn’t know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, 20 years later said “Of course we knew! If we’d followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze.”
vm8L TIL when lead was removed from gasoline, there was a dramatic decrease in the violent crime rate in the Western World.
BrMBK TIL that in 1946, Argentina imported 20 beavers from Canada and stocked a lake with the intention of creating a fur trade. Now, the beaver population is 200k and threatens 16m hectares of Tierra Del Fuego National Park.