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TIL hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians a weather man didn’t like

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R5Nr7 TIL that Lucille Ball convinced Merv Griffin to hire Alex Trebek to host the revival of Jeopardy in 1984 when original host Art Fleming, a friend of Trebek’s, declined to return. Trebek holds the Guinness World Records for most episodes of a game show hosted, hosted the show until his death in 2020.
QJgVX TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.
KY086 TIL that the word “googol” was coined by a 9 year old
awKnL TIL George Michael, the writer and producer of the hit song Last Christmas, died on Christmas day in 2016
OgLa TIL Guinness World Records had to ban a certain type of paper aircraft after this guy flew it for thirty minutes straight