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TIL Three out of the last 4 US Presidents were born in 1946

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QJbM6 TIL the title “Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” was a play words on the obscure 2001 documentary “Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy”
4XB7o TIL of Senator William Proxmire, who was so active in opposing scientific/medical research that his name became a verb. To Proximire means to obstruct scientific research for political gain.
15w7 TIL Las Vegas is teetering on the edge of full on water emergency and has instituted the nations harshest water restrictions. Meanwhile the fountains at the Bellagio use 12,000,000 gal. of drinking water per year because it looks pretty.
v1ZN8 TIL that the phrase "A-OK" originated from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because "the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O"
wORJ TIL that when Sebastian Shaw, the face of Darth Vader, showed up on the set of Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (aka Emperor Palpatine), who was an old friend, asked him what he was doing there. His response: “I don’t know, dear boy, I think it’s something to do with science-fiction.”