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TIL that actor Ed Gale, who played Chucky in the Child's Play series of movies, was a predator who admitted to soliciting minors but never faced any consequences

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w9Y8 TIL Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy, it blocks the receptors in your brain that make you feel tired.
WXwA TIL that Robert Patrick (the guy who plays T-1000 in Terminator 2) was in a boating accident and swam for 3 hours to get help for others
QJNX9 Physicians and veterinarians agree: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and is sick like a duck, it's best for it to be treated by someone trained to treat a duck. Faced with such a scenario, physicians would be armed only with what they know about human biology. And that doesn't go very far, says Rika Maeshiro, the director of Public Health and Prevention Projects for the Association of American Medical Colleges.
ZpmnQ TIL that a production flaw meant CD's manufactured by the UK branch of Philips and Dupont Optical (PDO) between 1988 and 1993 would be able to react with their own paper booklets and be rendered unreadable.
JGmv TIL a framed photo of a 4chan post sold for $90,900 on Ebay. The post read: “Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art/This post is art”