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TIL Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell) dated his three female co-stars: Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and Elizabeth Berkley while filming the show. Not even Zack pulled that off.

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KODVQ TIL of Jānis Pīnups. Presumed killed in World War II, he deserted the Red Army. To avoid being caught, he hid in the forest until 1995, constructing bunkers to hide in. Only his siblings knew he was alive, and he helped them gather forest mushrooms and berries under the cover of night.
X0eKR TIL: to clear land for logging in Canada, forestry workers, often students and junior rangers, spent weeks at a time as human markers holding red, helium-filled balloons on fishing lines while low-flying planes sprayed Agent Orange on the brush and the boys below. "We were saturated in chemicals"
P1WaE TIL during and immediately after the US Civil War, many -- like Frederick Douglass -- referred to it as the Slaveholders' Rebellion
yQWll TIL that a stolen Degas painting worth 800,000 euros was found inside of a suitcase in a bus near Paris, during a random search by customs officials. It had been stolen in 2009. None of the passengers admitted to owning it and nobody was arrested.
ep5Kk TIL that in 2001, a Boy Scout got lost near Yellowstone and ended up spending the night in a cave. In the morning, he woke to the sound of a helicopter and managed to get the pilot's attention. Upon boarding the helicopter, he was shocked to see the pilot was none other than actor Harrison Ford.