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TIL Jay Jackson (Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec) was an award winning newscaster in real life before getting into acting where he would mainly play… a newscaster/reporter.

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9wlbM TIL that New Orleans chicory coffee mix started during the American Civil War when Union naval blockades cut off the port of New Orleans bringing coffee shipments to a halt. New Orleanians looking for their coffee fix began mixing chicory with coffee to stretch out the supply.
RjRj TIL that more than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.
Gd94 TIL that “slut shaming” is mostly performed by women. According to the New York Times, “studies have shown that the more attractive an adolescent girl or woman is, the more likely she is to become a target for indirect aggression from her female peers”.
4XY1w TIL that the deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft).
1agBV TIL that it was only after Mel Gibson personally underwrote Robert Downey Jr's liability insurance that his career took off again