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TIL that Mary Lynn Rajskub — who played Chloe O’Brian on 24 — was originally only supposed to do four episodes of the show. “That stretched to six. And then they just kept hiring me.”

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Oo1lR TIL that Jeff Goldbum explained his famous Jurassic Park "laugh scene" as him having the sudden realization that the two scientists were more than just colleagues
rGO0 TIL The Axolotl can be forced to transform into its adult salamander form with an injection of iodine. It never becomes an fully mature salamander in the wild.
yQj9v TIL alphabetical order was introduced in the 3rd century BC by Zenodotus, who also happened to be the first librarian at the Great Library of Alexandria.
amyL TIL in 2000, a Wild Turkey whiskey storage facility caught fire, spilling 17,000 barrels of flaming whiskey into the surrounding woods, catching them ablaze. Twenty percent of the whiskey flowed into the Kentucky River, disrupting its oxygen supply, killing 228,000 fish along 66 miles of the river.
ybdw TIL that the German word, Schnapsidee (liquor-idea) is a term for a plan one hatches when drunk, or a plan so stupid that you think it must have come from a drunken mind