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TIL Michael J. Fox’s actual middle name is Andrew

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mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams
D14vJ TIL that the actor who played the radiology technician in The Exorcist was an active serial killer at the time of filming.
0dZD1 TIL: The first TV remote, invented in 1950, was called the "Lazy Bones" and connected to the TV with a wire.