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TIL Andy Griffith (RIP) did more SEASONS of Matlock than the Andy Griffith Show.

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O186 TIL of Cliff Curtis, a Maori from New Zealand who has played just about every ethnicity Hollywood has thrown his was including an Arab in Three Kings, a Chicano gangster in Training Day, Pablo Escobar in Blow, and the Lord of the Fire Nation in the Last Airbender.
9YYXG Short answer: Pigments offer protection
7rnDr TIL porn searches increase 4,700% when kids get home from school.
xV0Ok TIL In October 2015, United Airlines made a man with Cerebral Palsy crawl off one of its flights. The flight attendants just watched as he struggled.
p8Wmb TIL that a 'creole' is a stable language developed from mixing other languages together suddenly (no, not just French/English - any pair of languages), while a 'pidgin' is simplified bridging language between two languages.