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TIL that the British sitcom Mr. Bean only consists of 15 episodes over a span of 6 years

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b9Era TIL: Marceline from "Adventure Time" was played by the same actress that played Joanna, the pre-teen singing heartthrob, in "Love Actually".
aKbJ TIL an Australian infant vanished in 1980 and her mother served prison time for the murder, and 32 years later it was declared she had actually been taken by a dingo.
x6J9o TIL a county in Missouri in 1838 held a ballot measure on whether Mormons should be allowed to settle in the county; a heavy majority favored the expulsion of the Mormons. When they refused to leave, Mormon settlements were sieged by vigilantes, triggering the Missouri Mormon War
D16Ap TIL Victorian London was frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all their dead, and Architect Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre, a 94 story "Death Pyramid." It would have dominated London's skyline and housed up to 5 million bodies, and even received financial support
NgWP TIL that In 1277 Pope John XXI’s declared the concept of ‘laws of nature’ to be heresy because they conflict with God’s omnipotence . Pope John was killed by the effects of the law of gravity a few months later when the roof of his palace fell in on him.