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TIL Martin Landau had a brief career as a comic strip artist before going into acting.

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0E55 TIL after professional golfer Ben Hogan threw himself across his car to cover his wife during a head-on collision with a bus, the doctors told him he might never walk again, let alone play golf. He went on to win the US Open the following year.
Y7yWP TIL Despite the historical nomenclature, the "imaginary" part of complex numbers have a mathematical existence as firm as that of the real numbers, and they are fundamental tools in the scientific description of the natural world.
RnAa TIL, that ancient sloths were as big as rhinos. They were only exceeded in size by mammoths in other land mammals. There eventual extinction was due to human hunters.
mxxZE TIL: The world record for the oldest dog to ever live is 29 years and five months. That's a heckin' good pupper.
EMA0 TIL that the real life Pa from The Little House on the Prairie is suspected, by his daughter, to have killed a family of serial killers