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TIL the creator of Pimp My Ride was convicted of murdering his wife.

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4nD6 TIL Charles Cros invented both a method of colour photography and the phonograph. While Cros submitted his ideas to the French Academy of Sciences first, he never managed to patent them first.
1a7lP TIL after South Park premiered in 1997, the number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million, to a staggering 50 million by 1998.
VBQjQ TIL that most of the seats in Coors Field Baseball stadium at Denver, Colorado are dark green in color, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple to mark the elevation of one mile above sea level.
oRVMR TIL Ferdinand Rudow was a German entomologist notable for the poor quality of his taxonomic work. Although he named almost 200 species of wasps, almost all of them have been synonymized with other species.
WkWdB TIL The unofficial motto of the U.S. Air Force crews serving in America's nuclear missile silos is 'Death Wears Bunny Slippers' because of the tendency for missileers to wear pajamas and Snuggies while on duty.