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TIL Bill Murray’s brother Brian has 60 more acting credits that he does (141 to 81).

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jMop TIL NASCAR Legend Dale Earnhardt, along with many other NASCAR drivers, resisted use of the HANS device when it was introduced. The HANS was developed specifically to help prevent Basilar skull fractures common to car racing. Earnhardt later died after suffering this exact injury.
grM9A TIL The Catholic Church has paid out over $3bn in the US to settle various abuse lawsuits
RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War
yQREV TIL the fastest speed ever recorded on a bicycle is 183.931 mph. Recorded by Denise Mueller-Korenek in 2018 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, the gearing on the bike was so steep that she was towed to a speed of around 100mph before taking over under her own power!
gMbx4 TIL that in 1790, Thomas Jefferson proposed a decimal-based system for weight, length, and volume that predates the metric system. If it had been adopted, 1 mile would equal 10,000 ft, an inch would be divisible by 10, and 1 cubic foot would equal exactly 1,000 ounces.