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TIL in 1998, a woman hit and killed a cyclist when she was distracted by her Tamagotchi.

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QN7d9 TIL about 7% of the people who have ever lived are alive today
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MxQm TIL Gillian Anderson, who played FBI Agent Dana Scully in “The X-Files”, was not allowed to play Clarice Starling in 2001’s “Hannibal” because her “X-Files” contract forbade her from playing another FBI agent
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