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TIL Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, NFL player on the Kansas City Chiefs, continues to study medicine while still playing professional football.

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O0we TIL Robin Williams decided to test out the believability of his Mrs. Doubtfire character during filming by going, as Mrs. Doubtfire, into an adult bookstore and making a purchase. He was able to do so without being recognized.
jNN0n TIL a director of the movie 'Airplane!' spent $60,000 on 3 horses over ~4 years for a joke; "All Pink", "Ol Pink", and "Awl Pink". He instructed the jockey not to win, but to run as close to the inside rail as possible so the track announcer would have to call "...and it's All Pink on the inside!"
4Be6 TIL an empty semi-truck has a longer stopping distance than a fully loaded one (40 tons in the US). This is because the suspension and brakes are designed to handle such loads, and the extra weight provides more traction to the tires, while stiff springs cause tires on empty trailers to bounce.
VMEA8 TIL that nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, was first used as a recreational party drug by Britain's wealthy class in the 1700s before it was ever utilized for medical reasons
xV7L5 TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.