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TIL the King of Jordan appeared in Star Trek.
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K1y9
TIL that the VLC media player uses a traffic cone as its logo because the students who created it had a traffic cone collection
PeKV
TIL Alec Baldwin offered NBC to have his pay cut so they could finish and film another season of 30 Rock.
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TIL Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen and astrophysicist, dislikes smoking so much that he prohibited smoking indoors at concerts before smoking bans became the norm. The dislike for smoking was due to his father’s heavy cigarette use.
Oorbe
TIL: Phosphorus was discoverd when alchemist Hennig Brand who was experimenting with urine attempted to create the fabled philosopher's stone through the distillation of some salts by evaporating urine, and in the process produced a white material that glowed in the dark and burned brilliantly.
J1Ma1
TIL opossums always give birth to an odd number of babies, because they have an odd number of nipples. All other mammals have typically have an even number of both.