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TIL Right before the show F.R.I.E.N.D.S premiered, the cast took a group trip to Vegas for one last taste of anonymity. "Once the show comes on the air, you guys will never be able to go anywhere without being hounded," director James Burrows told them, not inaccurately.

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YxPW TIL Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized exoplanet within a star’s habitable zone, it is far enough away from the star that water could persist in a liquid state
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wLr1M TIL about the Guangxi Massacre during China's cultural revolution, where hundreds of people were cannibalized and barbecued out of hatred and tens of thousands more were murdered.