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TIL in 1971, 25-year-old Steven Spielberg directed the debut episode of Columbo.

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e0jnL TIL Skip Holtz, son of legendary NCAA Coach Lout Holtz and current La Tech Head football coach wrote the script for 'The Cable Guy'
LkQRd The first-ever 2017 Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) was held in Raleigh on Nov. 9 and 10, featuring some of the big names in round-Earth denial. Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.
kO561 TIL During President Kim Il-sung’s visit to Indonesia in 1965, President Sukarno showed Kim around the Bogor Botanical Gardens when the latter was smitten by an orchid. Sukarno promptly named the flower Kimilsungia and appointed it as the symbol of the eternal friendship between the two countries
0aW1 TIL that monosodium glutamate (MSG) has no extraordinary negative effect on the human body, contrary to common perception
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