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TIL in the TV show House, the producers originally wanted as part of the opening sequence during the theme song, to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle but Fox objected so they settled on rowers on a lake instead.

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gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.
gMjR9 TIL some people are phobic of certain numbers. In some Asian countries, it is common to omit floors that include the 4 as it is similar to death in Mandarin. While in Italy, 17 may refer "I am dead." In some western cultures, 13 is considered an unlucky number.
WLE8 TIL The “Portland Vase”, a wonder of ancient glass work crafted when Augustus Caesar ruled the Roman Empire, was broken in 1845 by a drunken visitor to the British Museum when he threw a sculpture at it.
OoQ44 TIL people who refer to themselves by name during inner monologues are calmer, less stressed and more confident than those who use “I” or “me” according to a research done by Michigan State University
yVyXa TIL of ‘Project Pigeon’, a WW2 era US funded attempt to train pigeons to guide bombs to their targets. The pigeons were put inside of the bombs and acted as pilots, repeatedly pecking the target displayed through a lens to keep the bomb on course to the target.