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TIL: Doc Severinson, the musical director of the Tonight Show for 30 years, started performing professionally in 1946. He is still actively touring at 92.

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6kyZ TIL: The Nullarbor plain: the great expanse of flat, arid, nothingness stretching across Western Australia & South Australia, many assume it’s naming is an indigenous word, but it is latin for “No trees”.
awjl9 TIL Prisoners in Brazil can shorten their sentence by reading and writing a report on a book
x6Ov1 TIL In the Sixth Dynasty, the Pharaoh elevated a physician named Iri to "Shepherd of the King’s Anus", a great honor.
lo4JA TIL the Carrington Event was a coronal mass ejection that occurred on August 28, 1859, causing Aurorae for days as far south as Cuba and bright enough to read by, as well as disabling the telegraph systems of North America and Europe.
loR6r TIL of the Republic of Kalmykia, a region of western Russia where the predominant religion is Buddhism