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TIL that actor Steve Carell owns a general store in Massachusetts. He bought the store to prevent its abandonment and destruction in 2009 and continues to run the store to this day.

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NXeJ1 TIL that the longest baseball game in history was a AAA game played on April 18, 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. It lasted over 8 hours and was suspended by the league president. They finished the game 2 months later, and in the 33rd inning Pawtucket won 3-2.
oR75r TIL in 1731, Prince Frederick, the heir to British throne, pseudonymously wrote a comedic play and had it staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. It was so bad, the theatre owner had soldiers stationed in the audience to maintain order and provided refunds at the end of the night.
8aarb TIL In a comedy sketch satarising 1960s attitudes to homosexuality Monty Python predicted Furry Fandom decades before it became a thing.
P1bRZ TIL about King Clone, a ring of creosote bushes in the Mojave desert. At an estimated 11,700 years old it is one of the oldest living organisms on earth.
B9ey TIL: That small plastic spheres are floated on top of reservoirs to help stop evaporation during droughts.