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TIL Marge vs the Monorail was widely disliked when it first came out, and Yeardley Smith even called it one of the worst episodes yet.

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1748 TIL that in order to capture footage of tigers hunting in the wild, instead of using a human camera crew, the BBC gave cameras to a team of elephants and trained them to operate the film equipment.
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