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TIL: Trading Places’ Was Originally Written for Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

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RXdQ TIL the owner of Ray’s Sausages spent $30,000 to combat the foul smell said to be coming from his sausage shop. It was then discovered that the smell was coming from next door, where a serial killer had stored the rotting corpses of his victims
WW9B TIL that Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar was murdered in 1994, as retaliation for having scored an own goal.
OgGX TIL that all those Facebook pages with sick kids, wounded soldiers, lost babies or puppies about to be put down are all scams making their owners thousands of dollars.
mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams
GY8w7 TIL Britain prepared secret ‘Auxiliary Units’ tasked with guerrilla activities in case of a full scale invasion and would operate behind enemy lines to cause as much destruction as possible to German forces and had survival rates of just 12 days if activated and lived underground.