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TIL Neil Flynn, who played Janitor on Scrubs, would improvise in the role so often that once the screenplay said ‘Janitor: Whatever Neil says’

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jNQbn TIL that a snail has about 2,000-15,000 teeth.
r8gW TIL: The RNA Tie Club was a scientific gentleman’s club created to “solve the riddle of the RNA structure and… how it built proteins”.The motto was “do or die; or don’t try”. The 20 members each had a designated amino acid and a tie. They would exchange ideas over cigars and alcohol. 8 won Nobels.
oENA TIL the world population living in extreme poverty went from 94% of the world population in 1820, down to 9.6% of the world population in 2015.
8eanV TIL that at the height of its power the Hudson’s Bay Company claimed eight million square kilometres in North America as its own and even had its own currency called "Made Beaver" (it valued goods by placing them against the standard of one prime beaver pelt)
nBoY TIL in 2004 North Korea demanded that the Czech Republic ban “Team America: World Police” from theaters. The Czech Foreign Minister relied “Obviously, it’s absurd to demand that in a democratic country.”