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TIL that Neil Flynn (“The Janitor”) was only cast for the pilot episode of Scrubs. He was so popular, however, that he became a regular.

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VMml4 TIL there is a zoning ordinance for Times Square mandating that businesses must maintain lights that keep the Times Square landmark identity intact, meaning even when businesses are closed, their lights will stay on.
vw8L TIL Portugese football star and Real Madrid front man Christiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.
7rgZx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
PXve TIL that the original plan for Jurassic World was to have hybrid human-dinosaur mercenaries (check out the disturbing concept art)
R5o6j TIL: There is a scientific study involving 2537 men and 3185 women which tested correlation between number of partners and most chronic illnesses. Cancer was the only one statistically significant. 10+ partners means you are more likely to get cancer and had having 0-1 has the least.