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TIL there has only ever been 167 featured cast members of Saturday Night Live

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7rwVX TIL the "r" in "Mrs" comes from the title of Mistress, as it was the counterpart of the title Master, which held the original abbreviation of "Mr".
XE1jD TIL the first Olympic fatality occurred when Francisco Lázaro tried to run a marathon covered in animal fat (it was to prevent sunburn). Before the race, he had supposedly said: "Either I win or I die."
wX78 TIL The first king of the Kievan Rus was told by a priest that his horse would kill him, so he had the horse killed, visited its remains, and was killed by a snake that sprung from the horse’s skull.
doXZ TIL Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft
nWNjo TIL The Young Ones had a 5th "ghostly" roommate