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TIL The Phil Donahue Show, later known simply as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation.

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WkXVL TIL that to avoid being conscripted by the Roman Army, some men would cut off their thumbs so that they couldn’t wield a sword. By the end of the fourth century, conscription avoidance was so widespread that Emperor Theodosius passed a law that forced the thumb-less to serve.
8aPAK TIL tonic water has nearly the same amount of sugar as most soft drinks
nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
NXEpe TIL: Robert Downey Jr was almost cast as Dr.Doom in Fantastic Four (2005), 19 years later RDJ has been confirmed as Dr.Doom in the MCU
QN8O6 TIL that the lawyer Nick Freeman specializes in having celebrities acquitted of speeding, drunk driving and other moving violations on technicalities, earning the nickname "Mr Loophole", which he embraced and trademarked.