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TIL Bryan Cranston directed an episode of The Office (S09E04: Work Bus).

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XEN0X TIL That the Colonial Continental Army was at most 48,000 men at any given time during the Revolutionary War
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BgJAk TIL Dostoievsky's greatest joy was writing the character of 'Karazinov', in 'The Devils' (1872), a scurrilous portrait of his rival, the poet Turgenev. When a fire broke out on board a ship, Turgenev apparently rushed from one crewman to the next, screaming, "Save me! I am my mother's only son!".
wBZW TIL Sigmund Freud wrote in a love letter: “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”