There's a British panel show I'm addicted to (QI), and one of the frequent guests in its earlier seasons was American comedian Rich Hall. I always thought that he looked strikingly similar to Moe Szyslak but just chalked it up to coincidence.
After years of wondering, I finally bothered to look up who Moe was actually based on. Lo and behold, it's Rich Hall.
So, I guess it's less "today I learned" and more "today I confirmed my random theory".
This is an AI generated image of what Moe would've looked like as a real person.
I gotta say the resemblance is striking.
I get the feeling they probably used Rich Hall in the prompt to generate that image, though
Yeah that was my guess also. No way it can be this close by coincidence.