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TIL that actress Zoe Perry, who stars as Sheldon Cooper’s mom in "Young Sheldon," is the daughter of actress Laurie Metcalf, who also stars as Sheldon’s mom, but in "The Big Bang Theory". Despite this family link, Zoe Perry received the role through an audition.

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VgN0 TIL in 1994, Actor Jack Nicholson got out of his car and smashed the windshield of another Driver’s Mercedes with a golf club for “cutting him off”. Nicholson reportedly offered an apology and a $500K check that successfully ended any criminal prosecution for the road-rage incident.
0d8Gy TIL Garmin had to skip naming the fourth iteration of Fenix, 4, because the phonetic pronunciation combo of both ‘Fenix’ and ‘4’ together in Mandarin is basically translated as “fast rise to quick death.”
vBbj TIL there is a book written by an Italian artist that describes an unknown world, and uses an alphabet and language that has never been deciphered.
d80eQ TIL about Operation Rocky Top, which was a FBI mission that discovered corruption in the Tennessee State government. With the help of a first-year state representative, the FBI had arrested 50 people including state officials, which led to two state officials committing suicide to avoid trial.
woOmW TIL a cave pool in Death Valley called Devil’s Hole experiences a “desert tsunami” when high magnitude earthquakes occur even thousands of miles away, risking endangering the pupfish species which exist nowhere on earth but this cave in heart of one of the most dry deserts on earth.