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TIL that Koreans born on the 31st of December are considered two years old the next day

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W7opX TIL Steve Urkel was intended to be a one-off character on the sitcom Family Matters. Jaleel White (Urkel), got into an altercation with Jo Marie Payton (Harriet), causing Jo Marie to leave the show, which ended after that season.
pYPJO TIL In 1985, Director Paul Feig won $29,000 on the game show "The $29,000 Pyramid" which allowed him to quit his day job and jumpstart a career in filmmaking
vPPkr TIL the boy whose exorcism was the inspiration behind The Exorcist grew up to be a NASA engineer. His work contributed to the Apollo mission in the '60s.
Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.
vP54K TIL of Benford's Law, which states that almost 50% of numbers in real-life datasets start with 1 or 2. This can be used to detect tax fraud.