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TIL While filming The African Queen (1950) in the Congo,everybody on the crew including Katherine Hepburn, became extremely ill with dysentery from drinking the water. Everybody that is except for Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey

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BQLK TIL Key and Peele were the gangsters in Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”
5exR TIL in Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park,” John Hammond states that the pre-recorded park tour is narrated by Richard Kiley, who later played the same role in the film, marking perhaps the first time that a celebrity named as a book character was later cast as him/herself in a film adaptation.
jNaOn TIL that some Inuit groups used ridicule in the form of song duels as a means of conflict resolution. Two men who had failed to resolve a conflict by other means would secretly compose derisive songs about their adversary. The whole camp gathered in a large igloo to observe the song duel.
dDZNr TIL about Manichaeism, a former major religion founded in the 3rd century by the Iranian prophet Mani. At its peak, it was one of the most widespread religions on Earth. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far as China to the Roman Empire. It was briefly a main rival to early Christianity.
nD59 TIL of Kim Ung-Yong, a South Korean man who was a guest student at a university at the age of 3, was invited by NASA to conduct research at 8, and earned a PhD in Civil Engineering at 15. He also has the highest IQ ever recorded in history.