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TIL in 1999, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Bob Odenkirk all appeared in the television show “3rd Rock from the Sun.”

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d8xj TIL That the Texas Legal System uses the Character Lennie Smalls from Of Mice and Men to determine if a death-row inmate is “too retarded” to understand his crimes, and thus avoid the death penalty.
nergY TIL the official flower chosen for the Canadian Alzheimer’s Society was the Forget-Me-Not
5x7k If two pieces of metal with a similar composition (ie, copper on copper) touch in space, they instantly become one. This is a process called “cold welding.”
7aeZ TIL there is a vampire-like disease that can cause your nails to grow long and tear off, your teeth to sharpen like fangs and your skin–in some cases–to turn pale and easily bruise and scab in the sunlight.
6EoXw TIL that a NYT article written one day before the assassination of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani, described the act almost down to the wire.