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TIL Lauren Tom played both Connie and Minh in King of the Hill and both Amy Wong and Mrs. Wong in Futurama.

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8aQe4 TIL Dick Tuck, a political consultant and prankster, pulled many pranks on Richard Nixon. One included renting a huge auditorium for Nixon to speak but inviting only a few guests. He also hired a pregnant black woman to walk around in a white neighborhood with a sign reading: “Nixon’s the one!”
kx6e TIL the Venus flytrap is only found natively within a 60 mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
neX7d TIL about "kulning", a Norwegian song using high-pitched vocal techniques to call cows in from the pastures.
0lnL TIL that before 194 BC, using sticks and shadows, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the Earth’s circumference with an error between 2 and 15%, and calculated the tilt of the Earth and the distance of the Sun to the Earth with near perfect accuracy.
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