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TIL actor James Hong has acting credit for every year between 1954 and 2016

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nWJbr TIL Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. Among other things, he developed several programming languages and wrote various textbooks. Wirth's Law, according to which software slows down faster than hardware speeds up, is named after him.
1adad TIL women are banned from Mount Athos, an autonomous region of Greece, because the Eastern Orthodox priests of the island believe only the Virgin Mary should represent her gender. This rule also applies to all female animals, except cats.
ep95 TIL there is a drug called disulfuram that is used to treat alcoholism that will make you very physically ill if you consume even a drop of alcohol.
8awkK TIL Some spiders disguise themselves as ants by pretending their two front legs are antennae.More than 300 species of spiders are known to mimic the outward appearance of ants, a phenomenon called myrmecomorphy.
MeZwV TIL when John Lennon was having his toilet replaced, one of the builders, John Hancock, decided to store it in his shed. About 40 years later, in 2010 Lennon's lavatory was auctioned off for £9500.