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TIL Canadian vocalist Rory Dodd did the voiceover for the original Hungry Hungry Hippos commercial and sang the 'Turn around bright eyes' parts in Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

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6E9N8 TIL that fortune telling is a crime in New York State and carries a potential penalty of 3 months in jail
QJlYL TIL the "50 years of oil and gas supply" remaining for global reserves is the same time estimation as 30 years ago, 20 years ago, and 10 years ago. The amount available to extract steadily increases with efficiency and technology and has done so at roughly the pace of extraction for decades.
6vVY TIL that Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. “I am not a business man; and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hundred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.”
N1wM TIL that Amish businesses have a 95% success rate at staying open at least five years
DQdbv TIL of the 2010 Sauna World Championship, in which two competitors needed rescuing from a 230°F sauna due to receiving burns to their skin and airways, resulting in the death of one of the competitors (also aided by his use of steroids and numbing agents to help him last longer in the sauna.