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TIL the TV show ’The Office’ had to halt production during the 2007 Writer’s Strike because Steve Carell, who supported the writers, refused to cross picket lines. On the first day of the strike he called in to the network sick, citing “enlarged balls” as the reason.

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ner7Y TIL of "Futility", a novella about the Titan - the largest ship of its time. It's dubbed an "unsinkable" ship, and doesn't have enough lifeboats. It hits an iceberg in mid-April in the Atlantic and sinks, killing most of its passengers. The book was written 14 years before Titanic's maiden voyage.
kjK5 TIL a 46 year old ex-NFL player suffered a head injury that caused him to lose ALL previous memories, even knowledge of concepts such as children, love, spouses, birthdays, etc.
OGQyL TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic got his LASIK surgery (to fix his vision so wouldn't need glasses anymore) done on live television. It was captured by KTLA 5 (in the Los Angeles area) in 1998.
8eQLV TIL a zoologist figured out the lifecycle of the parasitic intestinal worm Ascaris Lumbricoides in 1879 by purposely swallowing eggs discovered in a human corpse infected with the worms
NEyN TIL Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis didn’t talk from 1956 to 1976 & remained estranged until 1987. That’s when Martin’s son was killed in a plane crash. When Martin found out Lewis secretly attended the funeral, he called his old partner and patched things up & remained close until Martin’s 1995 death.