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TIL that Hawaii and Alaska are the only two states that have never had temperatures that exceed 100F.

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9YDPM TIL that David Tennant was so popular as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who that the BBC considered cancelling the show upon his exit rather than casting a new Doctor, as they thought the show would fail without him.
vpWB TIL Goldman Sachs helped Greece hide its debt….and then bet on Greece’s failure to repay that debt
8aXPK TIL when Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated the throne in 1918, Einstein wrote in his journal “[Lecture] cancelled due to revolution."
XL58 TIL that Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings, saying “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”
BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.