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TIL Steve Carell supported the 2007 WGA strike and called in sick to the network “ citing the case of enlarged balls as to why he couldn’t come in.”

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awo4y TIL That Aeropostale supplied football uniforms for UConn & Pitt in the early 2000s
kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
LkaWQ TIL of byssus fabric, or "sea silk" because it was made from the filaments of Mediterranean molluscs, gathered by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, who wove them into clothes that "when treated with lemon juice, turn a golden colour, which never fades."
j6R6E TIL Doctors are required to have their appendix removed before being stationed in Antarctica. This is to avoid the repeat of a 1961 situation, when the doctor at a Russian station removed his own appendix with the help of untrained expeditioners.
J1mlk TIL N.Machiavelli's remains are lost, partially because an angry bull once chased a man who was trying to hide inside the Machiavelli family chapel/tomb, located inside the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. The bull gored the man to death, ransacking the chapel in the process