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TIL that Scotland's name is derived from the Gaelic Irish settlers that the Romans called the Scotti

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GpAJ TIL Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) is the only member of “The Office” that appears and has lines in every episode.
DQXee TIL that Dellview, North Carolina is the smallest town in the state of North Carolina with only six people. It is so small that the town is considered inactive and almost all residents are related.
16Rb8 TIL Astronaut Ronald Evans holds the record of more time in lunar orbit than anyone else in the world: 147 hours, 48 minutes. Evans had to perform a space walk on the trip home from the Moon in order to retrieve three camera cassettes outside the spacecraft
R5M64 TIL the Pacific island nation of Nauru has been so damaged by phosphate mining that in 1964 Australia offered to repopulate the entire nation to Curtis Island near the Australian Coast. Nauru refused the offer in order to maintain their sovereignty and not become part of Australia.
j6R6E TIL Doctors are required to have their appendix removed before being stationed in Antarctica. This is to avoid the repeat of a 1961 situation, when the doctor at a Russian station removed his own appendix with the help of untrained expeditioners.