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TIL that romantic comedy director Garry Marshall created Happy Days, and is the brother of director Penny Marshall

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ANXXd TIL in 2013, astronaut Chris Hadfield took a picture of Berlin at night from the International Space Station which showed the division between the former east and west through its streetlights. East Berlin looks orange due to sodium vapor lamps while West Berlin looks white due to fluorescent lamps.
ZpXZv TIL in the original 1992 Powerpuff Girls pilot, Professor Utonium spills an open can of Whoop Ass, not Chemical X, to create the - then called - Whoopass Girls.
e0kL TIL Winston Churchill had a cat named Jock, who sat with him through war-time cabinet meetings, and meals did commence until Jock was at the table.
P1ZYG TIL in Red Heat (1988), a Larry Fishburne is credited in the opening titles. This is Laurence Fishburne who opted to use his full first name for his role as Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It in 1994
Ll5m TIL The time it takes our sun to orbit the center of the Milky Way is called a “Galactic Year” and is ~225 million Earth years. By that definition, dinosaurs went extinct last year, our sun is an adult at 18.4 years old, and the Big Bang happened just 61 years ago.