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TIL that prior to becoming an actor, Alan Thicke was an accomplished theme song and jingle writer — penning and (often) performing theme songs ranging from Diff’rent Strokes to The Facts of Life to Wheel of Fortune.

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mRYO TIL in feudal hierarchy of Japan, merchants were the lowest class because unlike farmers and artisans, they don’t actually produce anything. Samurai warriors were in the topmost class.
W718 TIL Ernest Hemingway used to machine gun sharks to stop them eating his catch and that in 1938 he established a world record by catching seven marlin in one day.
b6Dka TIL that José Feliciano, writer and performer of Christmas hit "Feliz Navidad", was born blind
RGQ8 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.
0dXJN TIL that women can give birth to twins with different biological fathers (heteropaternal superfecundation). The frequency has not been established, but one study found it occurred in around 1 in every 42 cases of fraternal twins whose parents were involved in paternity disputes.