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TIL The hospital in scrubs was the hospital used in the office.

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QJ9vk TIL that Bob Barker, who hosted "The Price is Right," trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to the fleet in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."
J9Qv TIL that Smaug, the reclusive red-gold dragon from The Hobbit, has an estimated worth of $54.1bn. It is #2 Richest Fictional Characters.
rRvJ4 TIL that the Greek gods considered the river Styx holy, even to them, and swore their oaths by it. Such oaths were considered so binding that even Zeus, the overlord, could not break them.
N7wNN TIL less than 100,000 giraffes are left in the wild. In the last 30 years populations have dropped 40%. In the last 10 years 40,000 Giraffe parts have been imported to the USA. Giraffes are facing ‘silent extinction’.
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.