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TIL that the late Robert Urich holds the record for starring in the most different TV series: fifteen.

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788Ox TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack.
4kEBg TIL that when bears hibernate, they "hold it in" for almost half a year. This is due to a fecal plug that forms in their lower intestine that prevents them from pooping while hibernating.
yVo7J TIL American gas prices are less than half of Danish gas prices
BgpNr TIL: The largest preserved impact crater in our solar system is on the Dark Side of the Moon. An "anomaly" of heavy metal the size of Hawaii is buried beneath, which apparently alters the Moon's gravitational field.
OGO9e TIL that during the American Revolutionary War,the Doan Outlaws, a gang of Quaker brothers from Pennsylvania,acted as British spies, stole over 200 horses to sell to the Redcoats, and in 1781 robbed the Bucks County treasury of £1,307, making it one of the largest public fund thefts in U.S. history.