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TIL the actress with the most Primetime Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards is Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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M7NbK TIL about Hakuho Sho, the greatest sumo wrestler ever, with 45 championships, 16 undefeated championships, and 1187 wins. He held the coveted rank of yokozuna for 14 years and has the highest top division win ratio (84.6%) out of anyone in the modern era. He retired in 2021.
kJL0g TIL power generators are among the deadliest household products because of the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning.
JYLBl TIL that the town of Zzyzx in California was named by a quack doctor to purposely be the last listing in any dictionary or atlas
PYZ6O TIL that dimetrodon was never a dinosaur, but was actually more closely related to mammals. Also that pop culture depictions of dimetrodon are super inaccurate.
4X6lR TIL that President Ronald Reagan's first official White House doctor called his job "vastly overrated, boring and not medically challenging." He could not attend most state dinners due to lack of space but had to be ready for emergencies, usually waiting alone in his office wearing a tuxedo.