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TIL Steve Carell was nominated six consecutive times for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the Emmys for his work on The Office, and never won.

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R6A9 TIL a teenager hacked CIA director John Brennan’s email by calling Verizon’s customer support and pretending to be a Verizon technician
woDEY TIL about Black Monday during the Hundred Years' War, in which a sudden hailstorm killed around 1000 English soldiers and up to 6,000 horses in only half an hour. The carnage convinced the English king that the storm was God's wrath, and he sued for peace with the French the next day.
X0pdP TIL that Shattered was a British TV series where ten contestants were challenged with going without sleep for seven days. Due to sleep deprivation contestants became hostile and irrational and one believed himself to be the Prime Minister of Australia. The winner was awake for 178 hours
QKE TIL Casey Kasem was the official voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo for 40 years! From 1969 to 2009.
gjkX TIL: The inspiration for the Lone Ranger was a black man born into slavery who later became a US Marshall and was credited with 3,000 arrests and killing 14 outlaws