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TIL Doug from Scrubs is now a lawyer in Chicago

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oRW17 TIL that the Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.58 million years, known as the Quaternary Glaciation.
BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.
wmlW TIL that an influential feminist theorist published that E=MC2 is a sexist equation for giving the speed of light too much privilege and that men cannot understand fluid mechanics because they don’t menstruate which leaves them unfamiliar with fluids.
pYMle TIL that William E. Boeing bought the Heath Shipyard in Seattle in 1910 and transformed the boatyard into his first airplane factory. Working from a tent hangar, his first plane - the Boeing Model 1 - was built from spruce and canvas by former shipwrights and took flight in 1916.
d8w0K TIL "Eat It" by Weird Al went to #1 in Australia. But Michael Jackson's "Beat It" only made it to #3.