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TIL that Europeans arrived in the Americas before arriving in Japan

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doVQ TIL when Florence Henderson arrived to do her Brady Bunch screen test, there was no one on staff to do her make-up. She went over to the adjoining studio where Star Trek was filmed and ended up in a make-up chair surrounded by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and “six or eight space monsters”.
LQj9v TIL that the extra skin on the elbow joint is called Weenis
BM7W TIL it is the 105th anniversary of the Tunguska Event - the largest “impact event” on or near Earth in recorded history, and had scientists confused for many years.
wolx8 TIL that Dan Quayle, Vice President of the U.S. (1989-1993) corrected a student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" in a spelling bee.
xYOw TIL that X-Files star, David Duchovny, got a Masters at Yale, and was working on his Phd dissertation called “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Poetry”, when he quit to become an actor