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TIL that when played together, the McBain clips from The Simpsons form a coherent mini-movie

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rNk8d TIL that Warren Beatty reprises his role of Dick Tracy for free with unwatchable gibberish every couple of years to stop anyone else doing it.
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voP4 TIL that in September 1939 the last thing BBC television aired before going off the air was a Mickey Mouse cartoon. When broadcasts resumed in 1946, the same cartoon was replayed.
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Mr8A TIL that the 1977 University of Evansville Men’s Basketball Team was killed in a plane crash. One player didn’t make the trip due to an illness. He was killed in a car wreck 2 weeks later.