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TIL That Ace and Gary from the Ambiguously Gay Duo on SNL, is voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell

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Z87R4 TIL critics complained Indian artist Daler Mehndi of being popular only because he featured beautiful dancing women in his music videos. Mehndi’s response was to create a music video that featured only himself. So that’s how the popular music video “Tunak Tunak Tun” was born.
xVg0g TIL that the 2014 WW2 Tank movie "Fury" (starring Brad Pitt) was the first time in almost 70 years that an authentic German Tiger 1 tank was used in a feature film.
8awNZ TIL that Hitler considered that Islam was perfectly suited to the "Germanic" temperament and would have been more compatible to the Germans than Christianity.
M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.
OoD1e TIL that AMC counted 942 cigarettes were smoked on the entire Mad Men TV-Series. You would see someone smoking at least every 5 minutes in each episode.