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TIL that Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, based the character Mr. Burns on a teacher he had in high school.

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epEG6 TIL a Canadian National Historic Site is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
4gXJ TIL On several occasions, Harrison Ford has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the behest of local authorities, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration in Jackson, Wyoming
E1m9x TIL the 1980 American musical fantasy film Xanadu was the inspiration for the original Golden Raspberry Awards (but it lost to Can't Stop The Music).
pYaZZ TIL The name Chicago comes from the Algonquin language: “shikaakwa,” meaning “striped skunk” or “onion.”
KOeZJ TIL that although red, yellow and green LED lights have been widely available since the 1960s, blue and white LEDs did not exist until the 1990s. The people who invented the blue LED won the Nobel prize for it in 2014, as it finally allowed for them to display the full color spectrum with LEDs.