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TIL that there exists a “Chili Appreciation Society” that hosts cookoffs about the best chili

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R5xKw TIL Wilson in Castaway was inspired by screenwriter William Broyles's experience when, during a one-week stay on an isolated beach for research, a volleyball washed up on shore.
Oo0w6 TIL, that the lead singer of Boney M. (Famous for, among others, the song Rasputin) died on the anniversary of Rasputin's death, in the same city Rasputin died.
dD4B9 TIL a leech can survive on one feeding every five years if it is kept refrigerated.
Zpeao TIL in 2009 Elena Bodnar invented a brassiere with cups that can be separated and converted into two emergency face masks -- one for the wearer of the bra, and one to be given to a needy bystander
X09Zr TIL that The Piltdown man, found by Charles Dawson in England from 1910–1912 and thought to be a key human-ape link, was revealed in 1953–54 as a hoax made from a modern human skull, an orangutan jaw, and a chimpanzee tooth, deliberately faked to trick scientists.