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TIL Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.

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5v7n TIL Fruity Pebbles are actually grains of white rice that have been cooked, flattened, and puffed back up.
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e4yb TIL that no Winter Olympic medals have every been won by a tropical nation.
kj01 TIL: After the death of his wife from breast cancer, actor Rick Moranis began an 18-year-long hiatus from acting to raise his children.
0dnZ1 TIL the last time a checkmate actually occurred on the board during a World Chess Championship match was in 1929.