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TIL Steve Martin was rehearsing to guest host the season finale of SNL when he learned of Gilda Radner’s death. Fighting back tears, he scrapped his planned monologue, and chose instead to open the show with a video of he and Radner dancing a parody of Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

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gNQb TIL elephants are afraid of bees!
Er9o TIL “Graham’s Number” is so large that according to mathematicians, in theory, storing the ginormous number in one’s head could create a black hole
9wpm6 TIL The absorptive surface area of the small intestine is about 250 square meters (almost 2,700 square feet)
JYZy1 TIL A special 90mm solar telescope can show thousands of small (by solar standards) columns of hydrogen plasma in profile at the edge of the Sun. These short-lived features, as long as the diameter of the Earth, merge together to give the Sun’s edge a ‘furry’ appearance
4XZ1R TIL that by 1983, the “Quartz Crisis” had decimated the Swiss watchmaking economy, which had 1,600 watchmakers in 1970 and eventually fell to 600.