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TIL: Tobey Maguire's Dad was a bankrobber in 1993
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TIL that Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears contain a chemical, Lycasin, that causes people consuming them to have “gastric symptoms” (i.e., you shit your brains out after eating them)
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TIL when composing the song “‘39”, Queen guitarist Brian May jokingly asked bassist John Deacon to play the double bass on the recording. Deacon didn’t got the joke and actually learned the instrument. In two days.
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TIL NASA sent actor and Puppeteer Caroll Spinney a letter asking if he’d be interested in flying in space as Big Bird to get kids interested in space travel, do to the size of the costume this idea was scrubbed and the spot on the Space Shuttle Challenger later went to Christa McAuliffe
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TIL Jackie Chan is extremely unpopular in his native Hong Kong due to his antidemocratic stance and outspoken support for China’s ruling Communist Party
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TIL hurricanes can collide into a phenomenon called the Fujiwhara Effect. At 900 miles, the two cyclones begin to orbit up until they reach 190 miles of each other, which is the moment when they'll then merge and the two storms turn into a single giant one.