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TIL Brooke Shields's guest appearance on ‘Friends’ impressed NBC so much that led to the creation of 'Suddenly Susan'.

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VKA8 [TIL] Today I learned that, after retiring from football and wrestling, Bronko Nagurski opened a gas station and retained customers by screwing on their gas caps so tight only he could unscrew them
Lkadp TIL on July 9, 1962 , a nuclear bomb called "Starfish Prime" was successfully detonated in outer space as a part of the program ‘Operation Fishbowl" following two failures that resulted in radioactive material falling to earth from 35,000 feet.
8Q8 TIL the Chick-fil-A Corporate Purpose starts with “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us.”
b66v4 TIL The Venus de Milo, as a Greek sculpture, would more accurately be called Aphrodite de Milos (Milos is the Greek island where it was discovered). Although it may also be a depiction of the sea goddess, Amphitrite.
eE1E TIL snake anti venom is made from the neutralising antibodies that a horse produces when it is injected with snake venom