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TIL: 25 million viewers switched from CBS to Fox’s ‘In Living Color’ during the halftime of Super Bowl XXVI. As a result, the Super Bowl has had high-profile entertainers ever since

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6EldW TIL that the woman that plays the not out, but obvious, lesbians from Pitch Perfect is actually Esther Dean. A hit singer, songwriter, producer and actor that has earned the name, “the song factory”
oRWL7 TIL Yasunori Mitsuda worked so hard on the Chrono Trigger and Front Mission: Gun Hazard soundtracks that he developed ulcers and urinated blood.
5JlQ Til there is a Green Lantern who is a sentient math equation
D17rD TIL The worlds largest book was lost by the city of Cleveland. It was called The Golden Book of Cleveland; and it was as large as a mattress. It was misplaced in 1936.
gMpy TIL over 2000 years ago, Eratosthenes estimated the Earth’s circumference using good old math, without ever leaving Egypt, and he was accurate to within 2%