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TIL that only Bryan Cranston (Hal), Justin Berfield (Reese) and Erik Per Sullvian (Dewey) were the only characters to be in every Episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Frankie Muniz missed out on one episode.

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0BnR TIL Concorde pilots chased a solar eclipse at Mach 2. They extended it from 7 minutes to 74.
6EZKY TIL about Bud Fowler, the first Black professional baseball player. He has now been inducted into the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame.
woNr6 TIL that during the 1974 Academy Awards, a streaker ran nude across the stage. Actor David Niven quipped, “Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
j6Kvj TIL that turtledoves are called "turtle" because of their Latin name: streptopelia turtur
jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.