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TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda made his TV acting debut with a small cameo in 'The Sopranos'

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8amQZ TIL billiards can refer to any kind of tabletop game played with a cue stick and cue ball, while pool largely means a game with pockets
69pX7 TIL that researchers have developed a blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear, with a false positive rate of less than 1%
R5K01 TIL about Roy Sullivan, a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He holds the record for being struck by lightning more times than any other human being. Between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times.
oBakr TIL In 2017, Hai Tao Buddhists who'd bought £5,000 of live Crustacea & released them into the sea for good karma, got fined £15,000 for ‘untold damage’ to the environment by introducing non-native species. In 2012 Hai Tao had released 100kg of cobras in a mountainous area not native to the snakes.
pKMA TIL that Seattle changed Columbus day to indigenous peoples day in 2014 to acknowledge that native Americans were living in the Americas long before Columbus “discovered” it.