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TIL chickenpox is a herpes virus

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69818 TIL Back to the Future's George McFly was only played by Crispin Glover in the first movie - for parts 2 and 3, it was actor Jeffrey Weissman wearing a Crispin Glover face-mold
1d5D TIL the Golden Hamster’s name in Arabic, where they are originally found, roughly translates to “Mister Saddlebags”
wG5Y TIL Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games, was a writer on Clarissa Explains It All
51x8 TIL the US spent an estimated 50,000 rounds of M-16 ammo per enemy kill during the Vietnam War.
BgB1r TIL the first mention of a double-nosed dog in the Amazon jungle was in 1913 by Percy Fawcet after an expedition there. But no one believed him & the dog remained a cryptozoological beast until the 2000s when John Blashford-Snell returned with photo evidence of the Double-Nosed Andean Tiger Hound.