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TIL that Seth Macfarlane based Stewie's voice on Rex Harrison

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GoBN TIL that when medieval Islamic scholar al-Biruni was trying to determine the exact position of qibla (the Muslim direction for prayer), he realized that a vast span of Earth’s land was unaccounted for in the modern maps of the time. This turned out to be the American continent.
DQQ6g TIL the 23 busiest train stations in the world are all located in Japan.
Z8RMG TIL the United States is the country with the largest difference between hottest and coldest temperature ever recorded, at a whopping 214°F (119°C)
oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.
m1Gyp TIL John Madden is the only NFL broadcaster to call games for all four US major networks