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TIL during production of the reality show "Teach," Tony Danza did not allow the producers to generate fake drama between himself and the students. As a result, the show was canceled after 7 episodes.

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XErwQ TIL of submarine Commander Eugene Fluckey, credited with the most tonnage sunk in WWII, incl. a Carrier and leading men on land to blow up a train. He got 4 Navy Crosses, the Medal of Honor, his boat got several Presidential Unit citations and not one of his men got a Purple Heart.
9ZQD TIL That if an atom was the size of our Solar System, then a neutrino to scale would be the size of a golf ball.
8kLb TIL that the same company that produced the Zyclon B gas for Auschwitz also created the anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin
wog6 TIL Jordin Tootoo is the 1st NHL player of Inuk descent, and his older brother committed suicide after a DUI leaving a note urging him to make the NHL.
ddYB TIL politicians in ancient Rome kept slaves named “nomenclators”, whose sole job was to remind their masters of the names and pertinent details of all the different people they met.