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TIL The character Mark Healy from Roseanne not only could do a dead on impersonation of Grover and Christopher Walken, but also died at the age of 32.

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BrAwK TIL Before he got famous on Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray portrayed Johnny Storm/Human Torch in a 1975 Fantastic Four radio show.
69MYQ TIL that Andrée de Jongh, the mastermind that led the Comet Line during WWII, was saved from execution because Gestapo officers did not believe that such a small young girl could lead such an operation. The network, consisting of mainly young women, smuggled shot down airmen from Belgium to Spain.
R5LQ9 TIL caffeine has a ~6hr half-life. So 200mg at 7am today will leave you w/12.5mg same time tomorrow. Repeat everyday and you’ll slowly increase the caffeine already in your system when you wake up.
697XW TIL: Around 106 tsunamis are observed in the Great Lakes each year! (although many are too small to notice)
XDdE TIL of Mira, a dying star zipping through our universe shedding its matter, each bit of which may one day grow into a new, individual star of its own. NASA has called it “The Johnny Appleseed of The Universe.