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TIL That Desi Arnaz, when producing I Love Lucy, helped to create the multiple-camera setup production style using adjacent sets that have become the standard for all subsequent situation comedies to this day. He also came up with the idea of shooting the show in front of a live audience.

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wkv7 TIL that the Belzec extermination camp is rather unknown because out of the approximately 600,000 people to be executed there, only one or two camp inmates survived WWII to tell the world about the camp.
b9p47 TIL that when it became apparent that Israel was going to win the 1978 Eurovision Singing Contest, Jordanian TV stopped the live broadcast, showed a picture of daffodils, and later announced that Belgium had won.
BKAW TIL that a man called Zeb Quinn went missing in 2000. His car was found two weeks later, with it’s lights on, a pair of lipstick lips drawn on the rear windshield, and a live Labrador puppy inside. Zeb Quinn has never been found.
A8vB TIL Arctos is the Greek word for bear, meaning the Grizzly Bear’s scientific name (Ursus arctos) literally translates as “Bear Bear”, the Arctic Ocean is the “Bear Ocean”, and Antarctica is “The Land with no Bears”.
a8BRJ TIL that in 2014 the state of Alabama paid 75,000 for the right to use the phrase "Sweet Home Alabama" on road signs at the state line.