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TIL King of the Hill was cancelled to make room for The Cleveland Show.

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9w0kX TIL Nikola Tesla predicted the rise of the modern smartphone over a century ago. He described a world where people would communicate wirelessly across the globe with devices small enough to carry in their pockets, envisioning what he called “a world wireless system.”
o1RA TIL there is a World War I fighter plane on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan
0w6W5 TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.
WyKd TIL that the New York City Public School System has over 1 million students, which means that if it was a city, it would make it the tenth biggest city in the U.S.
EgnpP TIL that in 2005, Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.