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TIL the actor who played the basketball coach in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Dave Florek) is the brother of the actor who played the basketball coach in Smart Guy (Dann Florek)

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yBrJ TIL Japanese railways are among the most punctual in the world, with the average delay of the Tokaido Shinkansen being 0.6 minutes. Delays of over an hour may appear in newspapers and delays caused by suicides often lead to the victims families being sued approximately 1 million yen for the trouble.
R7ep1 TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.
a8dOZ TIL that Hebrew, Aramaic, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and other languages all have almost same word for "peace [be unto you]" as a standard greeting (generally with a raised hand, to show peace). (E.G. Shalom - Shelam 'alakh - Salam-alaykum - Salam)
EgZkw TIL The computing term "debugging" originated from the time when engineers had to remove moths (and other bugs) that the vaccum tubes attracted
KY9ww TIL Francis James, an Australian publisher, was imprisoned both during ww2 after being shot down over France in 1942 and in China in 1969 for allegedly espionage.