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TIL Ted Knight had a short lived sitcom in 1978 where he ran a escort service

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VMlWD TIL of Edward Katskee, a scientist who accidentally overdosed on Cocaine after he purposefully injected himself with a large dose of to test how it affected the human body. He attempted to write notes on the walls of his office as he died. They were deemed too illegible to be scientifically useful.
OP6a TIL that there is at least one documented case of a wolverine (typical weight 20 - 55 lb) successfully killing a polar bear (typical weight 770 - 1,500 lb).
gMRV8 TIL that fellows of St John's College, Cambridge University are the only people other than the Queen who are legally allowed to eat unmarked mute swans in England
R745w TIL Tim Wong made the first and only successful attempt at singlehandedly repopulating the extremely rare pipevine swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In seven years, he cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (sole food source) and donates thousands of caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens.
4kLXw Today I learned that in Germany and Scandinavia, the musical note B natural is called H, while B flat is just called B.