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TIL - The Jetsons was originally cancelled after only one season, and instead, ABC re-tooled the show as a Sci-Fi partridge family spin-off (Partridge Family, 2200 AD).

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4Anb TIL due to a Gypsy crime wave, city officials in Milan authorised police to set up an undercover operation that used hidden cameras and telephone taps to make arrests. The investigation found some children were generating up to $15,000 to $20,000 a month from their criminal activities.
9gZm TIL Harrison Ford has had a species of spider (Calponia harrisonfordi) and a species of ant (Pheidole harrisonfordi) named after him for his conservation work.
KOOjB Modern aircraft have two recorders– one that monitors comms, the other flight instruments. The black boxes are now orange. If the plane does crash, it's easier to find in the wreckage.
61yZ TIL that in 400 BC Persian engineers could store ice, in the desert, in the middle of summer.
VM4rD TIL that when billionaire Peter Brant asked Italian artist Maurizio Cattellan to do a portrait of his wife, the 90s supermodel Stephanie Seymour, he made a hunting trophy of her to hang on his wall.