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TIL that William Shatner has been in or on at least one movie or TV show every year since 1957.

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VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"
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ExR0 TIL before modern weight training, pairs of old church bells were often fashioned together by a rod so they could be lifted. The clappers were removed making the bells silent, or dumb, hence the term ‘dumbbell.’
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