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TIL Jim Varney studied Shakespeare professionally at the Barter Theater in Virginia before winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his role as Ernest P. Worrell in Hey Vern, It's Ernest!.

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1686P TIL Karen Baldwin, wife of Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin, came up with the pitch for the 1995 action film Sudden Death, filmed at the Penguins' arena. Howard Baldwin produced the film and later opened a production company.
ned5o TIL that in a 1993 press release, id Software had written that they expected Doom to be "the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world". Doom indeed became a problem in workplaces like Microsoft and Intel, and educational institutes like University of Louisville.
7rw8r TIL that Ford has had 6 out of 18 of the biggest safety automotive recalls of all time.
epRkk TIL that the town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard only experiences sunrises and sunsets on 127 days of the year, from August 23 to October 27 and from February 15 to April 18.
ANZAl TIL about the "Sator Square". It contains a 5-word Latin palindrome, any which way you go. Or, it would, except the word “AREPO”, which appears nowhere else in Latin literature. Unlike the other words, it's definition is arguably lost to history.