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TIL Jay Jackson, the actor who played Perd Hapley in Parks and Rec, used to be a real newscaster and only takes acting roles as a newscaster

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OGyNX TIL that since Rain Man (1989) over 1/3 of Academy Awards for Best Actor went to Actors portraying people with disabilities
4kVoN TIL about The Battle of Stamford bridge. Where a lone Viking warrior attempted to hold off an army of nearly 15,000 men. The unnamed viking was able to take down 40 men before falling.
Mwkm TIL Restaurants can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ now because the copyrights claims are now invalid.
ZpelR TIL Gold is actually older than Earth itself! Gold we find on our planet is remnants of supernovas that occurred around 5 billion years ago, long before Earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. So, the gold in our jewelries are actually older than the planet we live on.
ep4DL TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another