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TIL I learned that there was a man who could eat so much that he was once expelled from a hospital under suspicion of eating an entire toddler.

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D1lrj TIL in 2009, there was a small CS:GO e-sports tournament between virtus.pro & forZe. The sponsors of the event decided to secretly invite a couple of strippers to see if the players could get distracted. The women were topless and tried everything they could, but the players didn't get distracted.
wLevY TIL that Monty Python and the Holy Grail originally included the characters riding on real horses but they could not afford to rent them so they were forced to add in the iconic coconut bit, which is an old radio trick.
grK5b TIL that the jazz singer Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar best known in the Western world from his collaboration with ex-Beatle George Harrison. She and her half-sister Anoushka were both nominated for Grammys in 2003 (where Norah won in 5 categories).
X0Anr TIL that a man planned to kill Jodie Foster but changed his mind after seeing her in a stage play
nJGG TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was once covered in highly polished white limestone, before it was removed to build mosques and fortresses.