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TIL that Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory) guest-starred on the Friends spin-off Joey as an engineering student at Caltech – essentially a prototype of the Howard Wolowitz character

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XE5NQ TIL after "Rocky IV," a joke circulated around Hollywood that Rocky had run out of earthly opponents and would have to fight an alien if a fifth film was made. That joke inspired the script for "Predator."
KYmga TIL that the last U.S. President who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican was Millard Fillmore, the final Whig Party President, who served in the executive office from July 1850 to March 1853.
0wg7y TIL men ages 20 to 34 have lower grip and pinch strength than the same aged guys did three decades ago, and that the average grip strength for men ages 25 to 29 is nearly 26 pounds lower today than it was before.
woJEM TIL A Japanese chemist first synthesized methamphetamine from another stimulant in 1893. This type of stimulant was first developed as an alternative to the ephedra plant, a shrub whose extract has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 5,000 years
9YZJm TIL In 2008, a British man was arrested for drug possession in Dubai after 0.003 grams of marijuana were detected in his shoe.