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Today I Learned that The Simpsons get more viewers on average per episode than Family Guy and American Dad combined.

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WbOB TIL Gilbert Gottfried was fired from voicing the Aflac duck after he tweeted out a series of jokes about the earthquake disaster of Japan in 2011. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan.
M7KRb TIL Mauritania didn’t abolish slavery until 1981. Laws were only passed to enforce the ban, after international pressure in 2007.
lgkN TIL Virtually nobody in the middle ages believed that the world was flat
yQMR8 TIL that an A10's gun is so powerful that shooting it halfs the planes forward thrust
9YlGD TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.