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TIL that Michael Scott’s realtor/girlfriend Carol Stills was actually played by Steve Carrell’s real wife Nancy Carell.

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R7ka7 TIL of serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, a Caltrans subcontractor who would bury some of his victims under the highways he built. Not all the bodies of his victims have been found
4kpmN TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke.
8Y0X TIL of Ikigai, the Japanese philosophy that everyone has “a reason for being”. It indicates the source of value in one’s life or the things that make a life worthwhile.
VBQgQ TIL Union Army General John Sedgwick died scolding his men due to them taking cover from sharpshooter fire. Striding around in the open, his last words were “They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
ROyl TIL that when Len Barker pitched a perfect game for Cleveland in 1981, his grandmother said, “I’m very proud of him. I hope he does better the next time.”