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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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