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TIL that Andy Warhol was an unabashed fan of "The Love Boat", and his diaries record a meeting to score a guest spot. He appeared as himself on the 200th Episode, costarring with Andy Griffith, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman, Tom Bosley and Marion Ross.

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NG78 TIL as a PhD student, American mathematician George Bernard Dantzig showed up late to a statistics class and mistook two famous unsolved statistics problems as homework. He solved them and turned them in a week later, believing his assignment was overdue.
78klZ TIL that the Philippines, despite being a former Spanish colony, uses the Portuguese naming convention—where Filipinos usually carry more than 1 first name, their mother's surname (as the middle name), and their father's surname.
GYny4 TIL in 1989 the Oakland A's Accounting Department was freaking out over a $1M surplus. Turns out, Ricky Henderson framed his $1M signing bonus cheque and hung it on his wall without cashing it.
woJaW TIL that one the oldest types of cheese is Callu de Cabreddu. It’s made by taking the stomach out of freshly slaughtered youg goat, while still full of it’s mothers milk, tying it and letting it hang to dry and age.
kOp87 TIL: Ohio class submarines have the potential to carry more firepower than most nations combined