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TIL Big Bang Theory character Leonard Hofstadter was named after Robert Hofstadter; an American physicist who jointly won a Nobel Prize in Physics.

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7re5O TIL Emily Canellos-Simms held the world´s largest fine for an overdue library book at $345.14 which was checked out in 1955. The book was Days and Deeds. The library charged her 2 cents a day. She found the book 47 years later and presented the library with a check for her fine
LkMOr TIL Phyllis from "The Office" would pay bills and do Christmas shopping online from the office computers in the background.
dJkB TIL Ashton Kutcher tried Steve Jobs’ fruitarian diet when getting into character for the jOBS movie and ended up in the hospital because it messed up his pancreas levels
dDM6B TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART
v6dR TIL that the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the known universe, being 1 degree above Absolute Zero.