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TIL John Cena holds the record for granting 650+ wishes for the Make-A-Wish Foundation

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xAxb TIL that it is illegal in Denmark to profit off of somebody else’s nudity. Therefore becoming a prostitute is allowed, but becoming a pimp is not.
Va7Q TIL that the chemical that makes chili peppers hot induces pain in mammals, who would chew the seeds and destroy them, but has no effect on birds, who swallow the seeds whole and poop them out, serving to disperse them.
KOnDQ TIL That the Nobel prizes (~$1mil USD each) are paid out of the interest earned on the fund left behind by Alfred Nobel's will. Not the fund itself.
78p9x TIL Rod Serling originally wrote an episode about Emmett Till but it was rejected and so he turned to science fiction, instead, to talk about social issues, creating The Twilight Zone.
J1Qbk TIL about the Italian Futurist Cooking movement, which rejected pasta and had diners sit inside a mock airplane with vibrating engines to stimulate their appetites