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TIL Timothy Treadwell, also known as 'The Grizzly Man' originally wanted to become an actor and auditioned for the part of Woody Boyd in Cheers.

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6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.
oxo TIL ZZ Top album “Eliminator” was certified diamond by the RIAA while never having a #1 single
loQyG TIL The phrase et cetera (“and so forth”), commonly written as etc., is also properly abbreviated "&c". — representing the combination et + c(etera).
1a9Rr TIL in 1987, an engineer used a new computer program “rwall” to send a message to his university server. Instead, the program broadcasted the message to every user on the internet—including the Pentagon.
X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.