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TIL Ed O'Neill used to make birthday phone calls to fans of ‘Married With Children’ in character, and in true Al Bundy nature, he only called them collect.

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X0DD8 TIL that the common understanding of nuclear winter causing mass starvation or even extinction has little scientific support, but scientists have purposefully avoided correcting it out of fear of being perceived as pro-nuclear armament.
7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.
ANbvo TIL the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere is located below Madison square garden. (In the 2020s it also expanded to the James Farley building.)
60OZ TIL that whales’ throats and blowholes aren’t connected. Also, what they spray isn’t water, but a mixture of condensation and mucus.
Wa8o TIL a prospector in Oregon found a 16 ton meteorite on his neighbor’s land and dragged it almost a mile to his land to claim it as his own.