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TIL Ed Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor

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awj9 TIL there was a nuclear fission reactor on Earth about 1.7 billion years ago that lasted a few hundred thousand years near central Africa.
D1ZJY TIL The Sound of Music is not completely accurate to the history of the Von Trapp family. The marriage of Maria and Georg was for practical reasons, rather than actual love for one another. Maria wrote, "I really and truly was not in love," but later acknowledged that she enjoyed a happy marriage.
v5aB TIL of several unusual units of measurement, including the nanocentury (3.155 seconds), pony (0.75 ounces of liquor), light-foot (amount of time it takes light to travel one foot, or 1.0167 nanoseconds), banana equivalent dose (amount of radiation absorbed from eating a banana), and more.
RZPa TIL in 2009 WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton was turned down for a job at Facebook, 5 years later Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion.