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TIL Tonight show Impersonator Rich Little is still alive and performing.

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QbK9 TIL that a “double blind” study means that both the patient AND the researcher don’t know who the control group is and which option the placebo is.
KLZR TIL Fritz Haber helped feed the world, but he also developed the first chemical weapon used in warfare. He is often referred to as “father of chemical warfare.” Haber may have saved more lives than anyone else in history, but he did so accidentally while trying to formulate new ways to kill people.
xVLob TIL Mac Hadley, experimented on himself by injecting a sunless tanning compound he was working on, but instead it gave him an eight-hour erection along with nausea and vomiting
j6pJX TIL the Skyline from Fast and Furious 4 was seized in 2009 by the US Border Force due to import and registration issues but was eventually released and exported to Germany.
LkWLv TIL- 106-year-old Manoel de Oliveira was the oldest active film director until 2015. He began making movies during the silent era.