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TIL Stephen A. Smith has been a recurring character on the soap opera General Hospital since 2016. His character's name is "Brick." Smith is a longtime fan of the show, as his older sisters watched it every day growing up.

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N7vJ1 TIL "Marcha Real" the national anthem of Spain.It is one of only four national anthems(along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) that has no official lyrics.Though the Marcha Real has no lyrics, words have been written and used for it in the past.
LkNWV TIL Six Chinese passengers survived the Titanic, but were mocked, rejected from the US and omitted from history
wow8W TIL that for the unveiling of their new handheld console in 1989, Nintendo wanted to do for Video Games what Sony had done for music. And since their target demographics were on the younger side, it took only a small stretch of logic to turn “Walk Man” into “Game Boy”.
PdOn TIL the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (1990) was a low-budget non-studio flick that blew away box office records and became the highest-grossing indie film of all time (at the time).
X048j TIL the decorative post at the bottom of a set of stairs is called the Newel Post