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TIL the TV Show Friends was loosely based on the Cameron Crowe film Singles. Crowe turned down the offer to turn the movie into a TV series, but NBC went ahead with the concept anyway, and Friends became one of the most popular TV series in history.

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e0Ep6 TIL Scotland has a national elephant polo team.
d8BeE TIL that in 2029 a huge asteroid will come so close to the hitting the earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. This asteroid may still hit our planet in 2068.
5WQk TIL after US Representative Paul Broun stated that “ the sciences of embryology, evolution, and the Big Bang are lies straight from the Pit of Hell”, in the 2012 general election, over 5,000 voters in the 10th District voted for Charles Darwin as a write-in candidate.
yVvk8 TIL: It’s illegal in California to drive in a way meant to show-off or impress someone else
4ZRR TIL that Johnny Cash recorded Folsom Prison Blues at the facility and added screaming inmate noises after the recording. The inmates were silent during the recording due to their fear of the guards