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TIL that Eric Robert's is one of the most prolific actors of all time, with 849 acting credits on IMDb since 1978. That is roughly 18 gigs per year for 46 years

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MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
EgPJX TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes.
RQKj TIL that Texas has the lowest high school graduation rate. It’s also the only state to be below 80%.
loDE1 TIL Nikola Tesla was only 35 years old when he patented the Tesla Coil and became an American citizen the same year.
rRnmy TIL of Taro Tsujimoto, a fictional Ice Hockey player created by the Buffalo Sabres. Fed up with how long the 1974 draft was taking, the Sabres drafted a fake player named after a local Japanese shop. The NHL made the pick official and only found out just before the start of training camps that year.