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TIL that Cotton and Kahn on "King of the Hill" and The Wiz on "Seinfeld" were played by the same actor (Toby Huss)

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j5La TIL that the US military recruits more people per capita from the Federated States of Micronesia than from any US state.
awQlN TIL between 2000 and 2001 Tesco was the subject of a letter bomb campaign from a person who demanded that the company's loyalty card be modified to enable withdrawing money from ATMs.
V6AG TIL - A simple measurement of the sweat gland activity of a depressed person can determine if he or she is suicidal – with 97 per cent accuracy.
Ooy9X TIL when economist Robert Lucas and wife Rita Lucas split up in 1989, one of the conditions of divorce was if he won a Nobel prize within 31 Oct 1995, half of the prize money would go to her. Robert Lucas won a Nobel with $1 million for his theory about 'rational expectations' on 10 Oct 1995.
X0p6Q TIL that some of the characters on the TV series Doug are unusual colours like green and purple because creator Jim Jinkins solidified the characters' early designs with friend David Campbell at a small Mexican restaurant, and Jim was in a "margarita stupor".