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TIL most of the actors that auditioned for the role of Al Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children played him as angry and yelling. Ed O'Neil was the only one that portrayed him as a resigned loser

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REX6 TIL the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
8BPG TIL that in 1970 the CIA sent an officer to Uruguay to teach their government torture techniques and methods to suppress the population. He was captured by the rebels and killed. One of the leaders of those rebels is now the president of Uruguay.
LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
ne8Pr TIL about The Fregoli syndrome - a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The patients are often paranoid they're being persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.
aw7Bo TIL that while at university, Prince William was called "Steve" to avoid any journalists overhearing and discovering his identity