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TIL the actress who played Carol Stills on The Office has been married to Steve Carrel since 1995.

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ZwXB TIL that during the Qin Dynasty in China, government officials would use fingerprint analysis at a crime scene to help identify potential perpetrators, as they knew that no two people have identical fingerprints
xVErD TIL that in the 1900’s, a theater offered a prize of $1,000 to anyone that could make Sober Sue laugh attracting thousands of people who would never succeed. It later came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis.
5YnoD TIL that during its revolution France tried to de-Christianize time by introducing a new clock that consisted of days of 10 hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds. The new clock system failed and was abolished in 1806.
gM4M8 TIL that functioning ‘mechanical gears’ were seen in nature for the first time. Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.
eQpE TIL India consumes half the world’s whiskey, but the French drink the most per person at 2.15 liters per person annually.