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TIL in 2011 the FOX Network threatened to cancel The Simpsons if production costs weren’t lowered. All the voice actors accepted a 30% paycut to each earn $300,000 per episode

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EOxW TIL Semantic Satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
B9jx TIL Looney Tunes was created to promote WB’s music catalog in the 1930’s. That’s why it’s “Tunes” and not “Toons”
6RG7 TIL that in the 1870s, a woman named Nellie Cashman organized and led a party of six to take 1500 lbs of supplies to 26 miners stranded in the B.C. mountains by a snowstorm, after the Canadian Army refused to act because it was too dangerous.
7VZ TIL that 60 percent of the US deficit by 2019 will be a result of the Bush-era tax cuts.
vPbaj TIL that even enemies of the Aztecs who were chosen for sacrifice understood their role to be sacrificed to the gods, because they practiced the same religion. Victims were expected to greet passerby, bless children, visit people in their homes, and even lead sacred songs, processions, and dances.