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TIL Michael Shanks, (the actor who played Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1) fathered children with two of the show’s actresses, including his on-screen wife.

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R7Gp9 TIL Judge Judy earns $47 MILLION a year for taping 'Judge Judy.' In an interview she said that every 3 years she would present her salary request to the CBS TV Distribution President. Once, when he gave her a counter offer in an envelope, she refused to open it saying "This isn't a negotiation."
5JlQ Til there is a Green Lantern who is a sentient math equation
KO4N6 TIL people with epilepsy were forbidden to marry in 17 states, until 1956. The last state to repeal these laws happened in 1980.
8alGG TIL of Zhang Jing­chuan, a Chinese mountaineer who survived a taliban execution at a 13,000-foot base camp. He knocked an attacker, hid barefoot in his underwear for an hour in a ravine, snuck back in a tent to get a jacket and a satellite phone, hiked to safety and called the local emergency line
eDRk TIL The first products designed specifically to wipe after using the bathroom were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp but people rejected them in favor of the Sears Roebuck Catalog