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TIL 1.5 yrs after Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live, he was asked back to host. In his opening monologue he asked "How did I go from not being funny enough, to being so funny I'm hosting the damn show? Then it occured to me. I haven't gotten funnier - the show has gotten really bad."

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l7QvB TIL an analysis of reported carnivore attacks worldwide from 1950-2019 documented 5,440 attacks from 12 different species of big cats, canids, and bears. Of those attacks, about 1 in 3 were fatal. Big cats were the deadliest, with 65% proving fatal compared to 49% for canids and just 9% for bears.
gJ6y TIL on May 23rd, 1967 the U.S. air force was set to initiate a nuclear strike against Russia after a sudden disruption of their radar detection systems. They were ordered to stand down after the then recently created Solar Forecasting Center determined that solar flares had caused the disruption
161pO TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.
dDLXZ TIL about humorous variations of Murphy’s law. Some best ones include: Fetridge’s law which states that important things do not happen when they are supposed to, especially when people are looking & Patrick’s theorem: If an experiment works, you are probably using the wrong equipment
epk5L TIL that you can bring pizza on a flight as carry or checked item