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TIL: The last Ottoman Empire Prince lived in a rent-controlled apartment in New York.

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86ma TIL: [Will] “Smith’s wages were garnished 70 percent during the first three seasons [of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air] to pay his back taxes.”
Y7JDZ TIL in 1969 the Department of the Army released TM 31-210, which describes in detail the manufacturer of munitions from seemingly innocuous locally available materials.
6v1J TIL if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become locust
ZYlQ TIL the “holes” in Swiss cheese are made by the same bacterium responsible for body odor
Ayja TIL that George Lucas has detailed knowledge of ‘Star Trek’. When actor Clint Howard auditioned for Lucas, the first thing the director said was “Balok, 'Corbomite Maneuver’”, a role Howard had played as a child 15 years earlier. The amazed Howard later said he wanted to yell “get a life” at Lucas.