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TIL Chris Pratt is the son-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger

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VML7p TIL Dave Grohl hoped to keep his anonymity when making his 1st record and recorded it all himself. He titled it Foo Fighters to lead people to think it was a group. Later he called it “the stupidest fucking band name in the world,” and would have reconsidered if he knew he was going to be successful
rDJ4 TIL of the ‘Banana Massacre’ of 1928 where up to 3000 striking workers were murdered for United Fruit Company (Chiquita).
NN1 TIL Nickelodeon has a time capsule that holds important items from 1992 voted on by kids.
YplWA TIL that the common ancestor of all fish had lungs, and that modern swim bladders in most fish are actually highly-derived lungs. In more oxygen-poor times hundreds of millions of years ago, being able to gulp down oxygen, which was more plentiful in air, was a huge evolutionary advantage.
gJXy TIL that Charlie Chaplin had almost been assassinated by the assassins of Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, hoping to instigate a war with the USA. Chaplin, however, escaped this fate as he had gone with the prime minister’s son to a sumo wrestling match.