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TIL Hayden Christensen successfully sued USA Network for stealing the idea for “Royal Pains”. Christensen pitched a similar show called “Housecalls”, and “was never informed that a similar program was in development”

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9pdG TIL that Julia Child kept her phone number listed publicly. Anyone could just call her at home for cooking advice. Apparently on Christmas and Thanksgiving her phone rang nonstop and she took every call. What a woman!
wLVN1 TIL Wild animals such as coyotes and bobcats will not eat a dead meth user. They can smell the chemicals meth leaves behind.
gM6X4 TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
nWkjd TIL In 2020, Chinese and Indian soldiers fought a "Medieval" battle in the Himalayan mountains. With firearms being barred by dual agreement, soldiers fought for hours using sticks, stones, and other makeshift weapons. According to reports, four Chinese soldiers and twenty Indian soldiers died.
XEbQ TIL if the spectrum of sunlight was more evenly distributed, the sky would be purple