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TIL that Conan O'Brien paid his staff's (About 80 people) salary from his own pocket during the WGA strike, Later during the Tonight show debacle with Jay Leno He did the same thing again.

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MebKK TIL in Japan, Nintendo continued to produce the Famicom (known as the NES in North America) until 2003, with technical support continuing for four years after that, citing a scarcity of parts as its discontinuation of it
b9DKE TIL that women have 16 percent less neocortical neurons than men
ZnEa TIL that handwriting has declined so much that 1 in 3 respondents to a UK survey said they had not written anything by hand in the previous 6 months.
g7gW TIL that a handful of American revolutionary veterans survived long enough to have daguerreotypes taken of them
neRdY TIL Britain had become the biggest drug dealer ever by the turn of the 20th century; at the expense of China which had developed the biggest drug addiction problem ever. In 1906, 23.3% adult Chinese men were addicted to opium.