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TIL Chris Farley has a brother (Kevin Farley) who does Stand-Up Comedy

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JYW0V TIL The Rock was considered for the role of Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s remake
p88YN TIL Hawaii affectionately calls Las Vegas “The 9th Island” with more than 300,000 Hawaiians visiting there annually.
mxNkp TIL that Vermont is the whitest state in America (96%), while Hawaii is the least (24%)
7KxM TIL A chess grandmaster threw the final round of a tournament in protest of having repeatedly been made to play women. She turned down the chance to defend her women’s world title to play mixed matches and randomly drew 7 women out of 10 rounds. The 5 move loss is the quickest ever by a grandmaster.
M1G0 TIL that Arthur Ganson built a kinetic sculpture of connected gears called “Machine with Concrete.” The 1st gear turns at 200 rpm and the last gear is stuck in concrete. It can still run because each gear set reduces the turning speed, meaning that the last gear only revolves every 2 trillion years.