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TIL that The Jerry Springer show actually started out as a serious, issues-oriented political talk show. It was only reformatted as a tabloid talk show beginning in 1994 to boost its poor ratings.

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jr5E TIL Delayed sleep phase disorder is often confused for insomnia. The person is able to sleep a full eight hours, just not when everyone else does.
rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."
KOX74 TIL that heavy metal band Black Sabbath started as a blues band called Earth, but changed their name after seeing the Boris Karloff horror film "Black Sabbath". They liked "that people paid money to be frightened".
YpndW TIL a kidney can be purchased for $650 in Kenya and sold for $200,000 in South Africa.
R7mpl TIL that not only did Brittany Murphy not die of drug OD/intoxication, but her widower husband died just 5 months later in the same manner: acute pneumonia and extreme anemia. To this day no one is sure what exactly caused their deaths.