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TIL Johnny Carson’s first three wives were named, in order, Joan, Joanne, and Joanna. Bob Newhart kidded that he had married three similarly named women to avoid “having to change the monogram on the towels.”

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w9pP TIL Cars have become so quiet, automakers have resorted to playing fake engine noises from the speakers
oR9JY TIL that in 1895, J.P. Morgan & Co. supplied the United States government with $62 million in gold to float a bond issue and restore the treasury surplus of $100 million.
G8bG TIL the 1945 Food and Nutrition Board Paper often quoted statement “humans require roughly 2.5 liters (8 glasses) per day” is only ½ of the full statement. The other half was “we get most of the fluid we need from food and other beverages.”
ANDKa TIL the reason why coffee makes you poop is because caffeine activates contractions in your colon and intestinal muscles.
GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.