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TIL Alice Pierce, who played nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched, received a posthumous Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She died of ovarian cancer during production of season 2, having kept it secret since joining the show.

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5YD8B TIL viruses aren't living beings like bacteria, but rather they behave more like androids that hijack living cells and then replicate. This is why antibiotics don't work with viruses as they do with bacteria; with viruses it’s hard to kill something that isn’t quite alive to begin with
YvQx TIL, the Roman ruins where Caesar was murdered are now a large cat sanctuary
Z8BeG TIL that in 2019, the CDC warned Americans not to kiss or snuggle their pet hedgehogs, after 11 people contracted a rare strain of salmonella. 10 of these 11 people were in close contact with hedgehogs before becoming ill.
1aGNd TIL that the term "canola oil" is short for "Canada Oil low acid," a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, "rapeseed oil"
8G4V TIL On the show Archer, the character Doctor Krieger is not a doctor at all. According to ISIS records, his legal first name is Doctor