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TIL That Patrick Stewart expected Star Trek: TNG to fail and would not have joined if he’d known it would air for seven seasons.

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4XKag TIL that "Häagen-Dazs" was completely made up by its Polish Jewish founders to sound Danish. The umlaut (¨) does not even exist in Danish and neither does the "zs" letter combination.
M7emK TIL that 1.6% of the general population has Borderline Personality Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by hypersensitivity to rejection and resulting instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect and behavior.
R5ZN4 TIL Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
QJMkE TIL In 1977 the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and ran it with undercover reporters to investigate widespread corruption.
0wKWA TIL: Hilter sent a secret expedition to Antarctica for Whale fat to make margarine as part of the “German Fat Plan”