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TIL that Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air was a back up dancer for Micheal Jackson before landing his role on the show.

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NXx8N TIL that the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered just 31 days after the event. It starred Dorothy Gibson, an actual survival of the tragedy, who co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized version of herself. It's now lost, as the last known prints were destroyed in a fire
yQ45l TIL no matter what height a squirrel falls from, it will almost always survive due to its relatively low terminal velocity.
l7J9r TIL: the same man invented the Clean Room (CalTech), discovered the true age of the earth (4.5 billion), AND almost single-handedly got lead out of our gasoline and envirnoment. HERO: Clair Cameron Patterson
0wyJ1 TIL: Egyptian Pharaohs would publicly masturbate into the Nile as a religious ceremony
4kRv6 TIL that preference of lethal methods is not the only cause for higher suicide rates in males