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TIL Canadians consume more than twice as much tea as Americans

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WelY TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.
7RyX TIL the role of Jafar in Disney’s Aladdin was originally offered to Patrick Stewart, but he had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts. Stewart later said he regretted not taking the part.
e0QGb TIL that a huge explosion in the 17th century is why the Parthenon is partially destroyed
9YnaD TIL Gene Hackman was originally slated to play Mike Brady in ‘The Brady Bunch’.
epeeJ TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world