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TIL that "The Edge", by NCIS star David McCallum, is one of the most sampled songs in hip-hop,most notably in Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "The Next Episode".

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9WAM TIL In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.
OmR6 TIL Bud and Kelly were played by different actors in the original pilot of Married with Children. Ed O'Neill (Al) didn’t think they chemistry was right and they were replaced. Here’s the footage.
OGP81 TIL The fear of heights is not vertigo. It is, in fact, Acrophobia.
VgxG TIL By typing “=lorem()” in Microsoft Word and pressing enter, you can generate several pages of nonsense
0pKL TIL, Clear Channel banned all Rage Against the Machine songs and over 100 other songs from its 1,200 radio stations following 9/11.