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TIL that the original title for the show Friends was supposed to be Insomnia Cafe.

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ANRaw TIL Galaxies are very flat. The length to width ratio of the Milky Way is about 60:1, roughly comparable to a chopstick
5bZD TIL water tastes stale when left out overnight because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the air
D1M4V TIL Sean Astin's adoptive father, John Astin, was the original Gomez of The Addams Family.
VMBNZ TIL of the "lizardman constant", which explains seemingly nonsensical poll results such as "4% of americans believe that lizards are running the earth" and "7% of americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows"
G6X4 TIL that more people were killed in the Battle of the Somme (141 days), than died in the American Civil War (4 years, 27 days)