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TIL CBS was fined $272,000 because Young Sheldon misused the Emergency Alert System tone signals in an episode showing a tornado warning, which is illegal to use outside a real warning, and since the EAS was made in 1997 while Young Sheldon takes place in the early 90s, this usage was anachronistic

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gQ59 TIL of Swordquest, an Atari 2600 game that contained hidden clues players could decipher for a chance of winning jewelry prizes valued at $25,000~ each
D1mbv TIL that Arthur Raymond Chung - President of Guyana, South America from 1970 to 1980 - is noted for being the first ethnically Chinese head of state in a non-Asian majority country.
wGE8 TIL that Richard Burbage (who played Shakespeare’s Richard III) was invited to have sex with one of his admirers. When he arrived, Shakespeare was already there and told Burbage “William the Conqueror came before Richard III”.
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