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TIL almost every word Neil deGrasse Tyson says in COSMOS was written by Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan

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QJQGE TIL There's a Swedish eSports team where all of the members are between 62 and 81. Playing Counterstrike online has helped them to improved their mental agility.
MeNLA TIL Alice Cooper once threw a live chicken at the audience, thinking it would fly away, and the audience tore it to pieces. After newspapers claimed he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, Frank Zappa said "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it.".
rNnw0 TIL that the bird we call “turkey” in English is named "Hindi" in Turkey and "Peru" in portuguese.
jNMn TIL: While filming the LOTR trilogy, Viggo Mortensen got so into character that during a conversation, Peter Jackson referred to him as “Aragorn” for over half an hour without him realizing it.
MeWZa TIL of Doozy Bots, an early attempt in 1991 to bring the Gundam anime franchise to the US. It involved a "Professor Doozy" turning a group of kids into various robots to fight other robots that went haywire. No networks picked up the series.