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TIL That comedian Daniel Tosh (Tosh.0) suffers from social anxiety, and can only overcome it by creating a different personality for his show

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AAg4 TIL the popular dog name, Fido, which means “faithful one”, refers to a real dog in France during WWII that waited for his deceased master every day for 14 years (5,000 times) until his own death in 1958.
NYJN TIL in 2007 hundreds of people gathered at the coordinate from xkcd episode 240 - story of a man who met a girl in dream that ended with him saying ‘wanting something doesn’t make it real’. When the time was up author Randall Munroe appeared and said “Maybe wanting something does make it real.”
yKoJ TIL there is a bare-chested statue of George Washington known as “Enthroned Washington” which depicts him as a Greek God
PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films
lavr TIL: When Davie Bowie heard Nirvana’s cover of “The Man Who Sold the World”, he said he was “blown away” by the fact Kurt Cobain liked his work, and said “it would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool”