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TIL that blood cells are developed inside our bones.

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D1gNg TIL that when told that Captain Picard drank a lot of tea, Patrick Stewart suggested the character should drink lapsang souchong (a variety favored by Winston Churchill). The producers were afraid that audience members wouldn’t know what it was, so they made him change it to Earl Grey.
x6BXD TIL about the Dubbed Ghost Stories animation. Voice actors were told "do whatever it took to sell the show." Whoever got in the studio first set the tone/subject for the scene, which the other cast members had to follow. This produced a dub full of random fourth-wall-breaking jokes
7rRyP TIL in 1913, a bank was shipped in 50 pound increments through the USPS mail system to save money. 40 tons of bricks ended up being shipped and the USPS released a statement saying “it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail."
loZPK TIL that Swatch Internet Time was a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation. Instead of having time zones, hours, and minutes, decimals were used to measure what time it was.
xRM5 TIL Eazy-E, former rapper and N.W.A member was not buried in a suit and tie, but instead a flannel shirt, jeans and a Compton cap, reminiscent of what he wore