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TIL up to a quarter of California smog originates in China

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ZpE0D TIL about Togo the lead sled dog for musher Leonhard Seppala during the 1925 Serum Run to deliver much needed diphtheria medicine to Nome, Alaska. He took a longer (261 miles) and riskier route than other lead dog but his efforts were overshadowed by Balto, the lead dog for the final leg (53 miles).
YpLld TIL nearly all the castles depicted in Monty Python and the Holy Grail are actually Doune Castle from different angles
RAo8 TIL Alan Alda is the only actor to appear in all 251 episodes of the long-running series MAS*H. He commuted from Los Angeles to his home in New Jersey, where his wife and daughters lived, every weekend for the 11-year-run of the show, because he didn’t know how long the show would last.
j6kvM TIL that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had bad handwriting, and before his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was published, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker had to puzzle out what was written on the scraps of paper smuggling out of King's jail cell
yQW1l TIL that "Chunk" from The Goonies is now an entertainment lawyer