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TIL Sam Lloyd, or Ted from Scrubs, is nephew to Christopher Lloyd, or Doc Brown from Back to the Future

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jYmv TIL hip hop mogul, Nas is now a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, on the verge of becoming a billionaire.
XEA6X TIL Laika, the first Soviet Space Dog died within hours due to overheating. This was not made public until 2002; it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.
DQA1p TIL that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone was so prone to exploding that Samsung released an update to brick any unreturned devices.
Eg9J0 TIL The last two states to be added to the US were admitted in 1959, only 64 years ago. Many current members of congress were teenagers when the flag had 48 stars.
xV1kk TIL that after the disaster of ‘The Coconut Grove’ fire in 1942, where in a mad panic to escape the fire people were crushed against the inward opening doors and could not pull them open, all public buildings had to have doors which opened outward