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TIL Creed Bratton from The Office is played by the real life Creed Bratton, former member of the 1960s band The Grass Roots

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4kaEg TIL that eels can travel over land for short distances by slithering through wet grass to reach new bodies of water.
BgO0d TIL The XNBL-1 "Barling Bomber" was an experimental American bomber that was nicknamed “Mitchell's Folly". It was so underpowered that on a flight from Dayton, Ohio to an airshow in Washington, DC, it failed to achieve enough height to get over the Appalachian Mountains and had to turn around.
5VoOk TIL that there are approximately over 10,000 atomic bombs / nuclear warheads worldwide.
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