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TIL Breaking Bad's Bob Odenkirk created the character Matt Foley, which launched Chris Farley to stardom on Saturday Night Live

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R768 TIL that in the “Plato’s Stepchildren” episode of Star Trek William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of a scene where they did NOT kiss, thus forcing the episode to go out with the kiss intact.
nYwW TIL All gambling in Finland is controlled by the government, and all of the profits go to charity
VBAe4 TIL "You need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person's report" is a TV trope. In reality, law enforcement agencies encourage reporting as soon as a person's absence is suspicious.
Oo97L TIL Nearly 700 million people get a mosquito-borne illness each year. 19 diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes include Malaria, Dengue, West Nile virus, Keystone virus, Rift Valley fever, La Crosse encephalitis, Chikungunya, Zika fever, etc. Doctors can typically identify a mosquito bite by sight.
e0v8b TIL about comparative mythology. Anthropologist reconstruct ancient religions based on trends in their cultural descendents. Zeus and Jupiter (and many others) likely evolved from the Indo-European "*Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr" ("sky father")