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TIL Rob McElhenney (who plays Mac) created and wrote the first episode of It’s Always Sunny after failing as an actor for 10 years

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j6ZMN TIL the Yamato Colony was a 1905 Japanese settlement in Florida created by businessmen and State authorities to spur agriculture and trade. By WWII the remaining Japanese were interned in camps and had their land taken away. Today only a museum and park remain.
W1jd TIL: That the phrase “Can’t hold a candle next to (insert name here).” Stems from the fact that apprentices used to be expected to hold the candle so that more experienced workmen were able to see what they were doing. Someone unable even to do that would be of low status indeed.
KOvOw TIL Zodiac symbols also correspond to alchemy processes and were part of a larger system of symbols that were used as notation in proto-chemistry formulas in the early modern period
m1gJy TIL that in 1906, a serial killer in Morocco was sentenced to death by immurement (being walled in).
WQLB TIL that when 6-year old Adam Walsh (the son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh) was murdered in 1981, the police investigation was so inept that they lost the bloodstained carpet from the suspect’s Cadillac, the machete used to decapitate Walsh, and eventually, the car itself.