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TIL Lorne Michaels considers Steven Segal the worst guest host ever on SNL.

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VBl60 TIL stars larger than the sun fuse elements in a cycle where carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms act as catalysts transforming into each other continuously. After a full cycle, the net result is 4 hydrogen atoms consumed and 1 helium atom released along with energy, at which point the cycle repeats.
ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
dDXv8 TIL the creator of Shaft was white
ZDJp TIL Ancient Irish kings were inaugurated in a symbolic wedding to the land, claimed to involve sex with a white mare followed by bathing in a broth made from the mare
x6bO1 TIL the Big Bang theory was discovered by a Catholic Priest