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TIL that Blue Cheese has mold in it.

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mxEgR TIL that the creator of Rocko’s Modern Life, Joe Murray, was asked by executives to put a female role model in the show. After some back and forth, a female executive requested “"a professional woman, someone with a good hook.". So, Murray created Dr Hutchinson, a female doctor with a literal hook.
LxDv TIL of a Chinese general with 100 troops who had to defend a town against 150,000. He told his men to hide, flung open the gates and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat
ZMXD TIL that Teller (of Penn and Teller) was a high school Latin and English teacher before turning professional as a magician. At the same high school Jon Stewart went to.
DQNLP TIL Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was involved in multiple open relationships, including one with Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Uhura.
oBPO8 TIL when Stalin got his first position as Secretary of the Communist Party, Leon Trotsky mocked his secretarial and low duties by nicknaming him "Comrade Index Card". Stalin eventually rose in ranks to rule the USSR, and eventually exiled Trotsky from the entire country.