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TIL the callers on Frasier were famous people, including Christopher Reeve, Eddy Van Halen, Ben Stiller, Elijah Woods, Timothy Leary, Hally Berry, John McEnroe and many more.

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oGe8 TIL that belief in dragons evolved independently in both Europe and China, and possibly the Americas and Australia as well
VMngQ TIL Alzheimer's can't be "officially" diagnosed until after death. They have to confirm diagnosis with autopsy. So essentially they say a person has "dementia." The proteins involved still can't be detected without the autopsy. Today new methods can diagnose it with a 90% accuracy rate though
PY9ln TIL that during his lifetime Pythagoras was subject to elaborate legends like having a golden thigh, could fly thanks to a magic arrow, was greeted by name by a river, and once when bitten by a deadly snake, bit it back and killed it
mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
QNWm6 TIL Osama bin Laden played Animal Crossing: Wild World, New Super Mario Bros., Pokémon Diamond, and other DS games on an emulator while in hiding