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TIL that Cheech Marin beat both Anderson Cooper (Yale graduate) and Aisha Tyler (Dartmouth graduate) at Celebrity Jeopardy.

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p87BG TIL that there has never been a war between two countries that have a McDonald's in it. This has developed the theory Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.
nWw17 TIL the movie Rollerball (2002 version) was released with a PG-13 rating but was filmed and later released in an R rated version, which contained only "3 minutes of discarded violence and nudity" not used in the PG-13 version.
Lb7v TIL two billion people in the world suffer from iron deficiency (anemia) and that this can be solved by putting a little iron fish into one’s cooking pot.
QJbVk Today I learned that the release of Little Big Planet was delayed by a week because of the inclusion of music with arabic lyrics from the Quran
5YpD9 TIL whales spouting water out of blowholes is a common error propagated in children's books and movies (the whale would be drowning if it did so). A 2016 scientific survey of children's books featuring whales and cetaceans revealed 74/116 had factual errors, including almost half of the non-fiction.