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TIL John Oliver was recommended to Jon Stewart for a job on the Daily Show by Ricky Gervais. Oliver didn’t know Gervais personally at the time and had never been to the USA before auditioning.

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p8LNA TIL About The Kurgan hypothesis. That a group of peoples 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, whose language is now related to 440 others, spread across Europe and parts of Asia. Their word "lox" has survived unchanged for 8,000 years and means/pronounced the same as it is today in English.
wLRR8 TIL Nic Cage once crashed a Nic Cage film festival, watched 4 of his own films, did a 47-minute Q&A and read a 10-minute short story
nWGaW TIL the Swiss constitution of 1848 modelled itself on the US constitution, adopted fundamental rights and the separation of powers, but opted for a seven-member council instead of a single president to balance power regionally.
b6r9a TIL Henry Cavill was dubbed 'the most unlucky man in Hollywood' by Empire Magazine in 2005 after missing out on the lead roles for Superman, James Bond and Twilight
8R1L TIL if the mostly unknown 10th President of the USA-John Tyler, hadn’t implemented the Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii would be a British colony today