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TIL that across 203 episodes of Home Improvement there were 662 grunts. Thats approximately 3.26 grunts per episode.

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9w8MB TIL that Quillaia extract (the milled inner bark or small stems and branches of the soapbark evergreen tree) is added to many soft drinks (such as root-beer and cream-soda) to provide a 'foaming' effect. It is also used as an additive in some foods to aid in keeping them moist.
8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.
ne1MP TIL George Lucas didn’t want Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones because he didn’t want them to become known as a pair like DeNiro and Scorsese. Lucas and Spielberg thought Tom Selleck was perfect for the part but he had already filmed the pilot “Magnum P.I.” and couldn’t get out of the contract
woJK6 TIL Brasil has a town called Americana inhabited by confederate descendents
0dx0A TIL as part of the larger 1968 Tet Offensive, the US Embassy was raided by Vietcong commandos. According to a first-hand account, the defending American force included 3 members of the OSA, one of whom was armed with a 9mm Beretta submachine gun.