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TIL an actor who appeared as an extra in 12 episodes of the original Star Trek series – and whose face can be seen clearly in at least one episode – was never credited and his identity remains uncertain to this day

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8amkV TIL that in 1972 Larry Hagman made a sequel to "The Blob" and in 1982 the movie was re-issued with the tagline "The film that J.R. shot!".
M9wa TIL that a species of self-cloning crayfish was discovered in the German pet trade in the 1990’s. Every individual is female and genetically identical. There are no known natural populations.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
ADWb7 TIL that lobsters are notorious cannibals, one of the reason it's hard to have lobster farms
9Lwp TIL that a man claimed the only unclaimed habitable area left on earth, Bir Tawil, so that his daughter could be a real princess.