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TIL In Weird Al's White & Nerdy music video Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are the two "gangsters" who are scared away by Yankovic's nerdiness in the beginning of the video.

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R55bw TIL Jim Carrey went through Navy Seal torture training in order to play the grinch.
mgeR TIL in 1964 white business leaders in Atlanta refused to buy tickets to an event honoring recent Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King. Coca-Cola recognized the potential PR disaster and threatened to leave the city unless people attended. The event sold out the next day.
BDZr TIL Ulysses S. Grant was also planned to be assassinated along with Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, but did not attend the play at Ford Theater because their wives were not on good terms.
neGbP TIL that the decline of the Maya may have been strongly attributed to inter-city warfare, and hieroglyphs in 2002 tell the story.
QJrrp TIL high school sports is something that is unique in the US. In most countries in the world, schools don't have sports teams.