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TIL that George Michael made his first American acting debut in March 2008 on the US TV show, Eli Stone. His character was a guardian angel that appeared as visions to Jonny Lee Miller’s character. Each episode of the show’s first season was also named after George Michael songs.

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QNg5L TIL that Ireland was nicknamed Wolf-Land for its substantial population. Hundreds of wolf pelts used to be exported yearly, and English governments banned the export of wolfhounds in order to control the wild population.
ZYWR TIL that echolalia is the involuntary urge to imitate what someone else just said, the exact same way they just said it.
awaBL TIL in 1969, President Nixon proposed a minimum income for poor families known as the Family Assistance Plan (FAP). While it passed in the House, the proposal never made it out of the Senate committee.
b9NPQ TIL: Jim Carey used to get to do stand up in his 7th grade class. He used humor to fit in and his teacher made a deal with him - if he was quiet all day he would get 15 minutes at the end of class where he did stand up using material from life, the class, or doing impressions of faculty members.
BGOe TIL that Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” won every award it was nominated for