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TIL Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash auditioned to be a member of The Monkees, and when they turned him down he recommended his friend Peter Tork.

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6ARQ TIL Takeru Kobayashi, 6-time Nathans Hot Dog Eating competition winner, lost in a hotdog eating competition against a 1089lb Kodiak bear; he ate 31 hot dogs in 2min36 seconds against the bear’s 50. In 2012 Kobayashi broke the record held by the bear at the Texas state fair with 60 in 2min 35sec.
rRA6M TIL in 1918 a man crashed, "died," was buried in a coffin, exhumed against family wishes 2 days later after an insurance debate, found ALIVE (due to being in a low-oxygen coma state), went on to become a French celebrity and invented a breathing tube apparatus/wine pack for coffins.
WRRo TIL In 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” which was made of smoked reindeer.
nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.
gMnkW TIL that street dogs in Russia use trains to commute between various locations, obey traffic lights, and avoid defecating in high traffic areas. The leader of a pack is the most intelligent (not strongest) and the packs intuit human psychology in many ways (e.g. deploying cutest dogs to beg).