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TIL that William H. Macy, the actor who played the deadbeat dad Frank Gallagher on Shameless, was the original narrator of the children's show Curious George for its entire first season

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Zp4EB TIL that the nations of Micronesia, Tuvalu, and Palau have no political parties, and are what are known as non-partisan democracies.
jNrWp TIL Due to work to protect the Leaning tower of Pisa, The structure has started to lean less and straighten out.
4LbR TIL in 2000, a man in pennsylvania terrorized local markets by stealthily crumbling thousands of dollars worth of baked goods in their packaging for three years.
4Xaow TIL USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of WW II launched in 1943. Tang sank 33 ships totalling 116,454 tons and was sunk by own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait, 24 October 1944.
Eg7VV TIL - in 1963, Robert A Baker published a book called “Stress analysis of a strapless evening gown” - to explain how these dresses were able to stay up without shoulder straps