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TIL Stephen King once called Glenn Beck “satan’s mentally challenged younger brother”

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4k8Nw TIL that Ethiopia has a unique calendar which is 7-8 years behind the rest of the world. The current year in Ethiopia is 2014.
e0Wkb TIL there was a short lived spin off of "The Golden Girls" called "The Golden Palace", where they all ran a hotel minus Bea Arthur. It oddly ran on CBS instead of NBC, and was cancelled after one season. Also co-starred a young Don Cheadle and Cheech Martin as a hotel chef.
VMZa4 TIL: In 2004, a study was conducted to test the correlation between video game usage and surgical performance. It turned out that of the doctors sampled, the surgeons who played video games at least 3 hours a week performed surgeries 27% faster and with 37% less errors than their counterparts!
1aLM4 TIL: El Salvador has the highest per capital consumption of Worcestershire sauce in the world
16JvO TIL Michael Goleniewski was a Polish military officer and triple agent who revealed more spies than any other agent in history.