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TIL The reason The Doctor regenerates in Doctor Who is because William Hartnell (The actor who played the First Doctor) had to leave the show due to his poor health.

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8aw6P TIL about James Hugh O'Neill, the chaplain for General Patton's Third Army in WW2, when Patton ordered him to pray for clear weather, and the weather subsequently cleared, he was awarded the Bronze Star on the spot by Patton
J17ol TIL the verb "to self-destruct" was coined and popularized solely by the original Mission: Impossible television series in the 1960s.
5Y77p TIL Morphine was named after the Greek God of Sleep - Morpheus.
pbwN TIL Yurii is the Slavic form of the name George
newmr TIL Caesar Rodney rode 70 miles in a thunderstorm, while it was night time to be the deciding vote for the Declaration Of Independence, arriving in Philadelphia in time for his crucial vote to split from the United Kingdom.