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TIL George Clooney featured in the show E/R as an EMT (not to be confused with the show ER where he starred as a doctor)

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X0ALk TIL the Mormon church is the wealthiest religious institution in the world with estimated assets between 80 and 100 billion dollars.
PYQ4J TIL the classic Peanuts football gag ended on October 24, 1999. In the final strip, Rerun held the football instead of Lucy and whether or not Charlie Brown kicked the football was never revealed.
VMZND TIL Chicago had a theme song and dance to celebrate the new millennium. It's called Do The Milly.
w6W8 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.
gM4YD TIL: In the 1960’s The FAA intentionally created 1200+ Sonic Booms over Oklahoma City in a six-month span to test the effect on residents and wildlife in anticipation of commercial supersonic flight