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TIL Ween dedicated "Chocolate and Cheese" to John Candy because"...there was so much going on about Kurt Cobain, and nobody mentioned John Candy at all. "

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P1rXE TIL that the Great Seattle Fire which destroyed Seattle’s central business district and caused an estimated 20 million (700 million adjusted) dollars worth of damage in 1889 was caused by an overheated glue pot in a carpentry shop.
WZOX TIL that after he was accused of witchcraft, Giles Corey was subjected to “pressing.” He was stripped naked and weight was added to a heavy plank on his chest to force him to plead innocent or guilty. Each time he was asked to make his plea, he said “more weight” and was eventually crushed to death.
b9wvZ TIL that a sports writer wrote a rude and snarky article about the WNBA even though he had never been to a game. He was confronted by a WNBA star who chided him and invited him to watch her play. Two years later they were married.
p8Ro4 TIL one of the only reasons the world got Mark Hamill's masterful performance as Luke Skywalker is because Robert Englund (of Freddy Krueger fame) happened to see auditions for A New Hope taking place and suggested to Hamill that he should audition, believing him to be perfect for the role
VMe6D TIL that the thinking--i.e. non-physical activity--involved in mentally rigorous activities such as chess can require so much of the body's energy that individuals can burn hundreds of calories per hour engaging in them.