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TIL that, while Marge vs the Monorail is considered one of The Simpsons' best episodes, many of the writing staff consider it one of the worst and the beginning of the show's reliance on absurd cartoonish plots

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5Y4mn TIL about The Filibuster of 1890 - a Plot by San Diego conspirators to conquer and annex Baja California
1Y4O TIL Jerry Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service after repeatedly watching Ronald Reagan’s 1939 movie “Code of the Secret Service”. In the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, he was the one who saved his life.
j6Ajp TIL Leonardo DiCaprio idolised River Phoenix as young actor and was desperate to meet him. He saw at a party but was separated by a crowd. Phoenix left the party and went straight to the Viper Room where he would die the same night
NXwZE TIL about “E-Squadron” or “The Increment”. Which is perhaps the most elite and secretive special forces group in the U.K.- maybe even better than the SAS.
mxZQy TIL Ravoux's slavemaker ant is a species where the queen can fake her own death to encourage ants from a rival colony to drag her body back to the nest. When there, she kills the nest's queen and bathes in her pheromones, becoming the new queen. Her soldiers overrun the colony and take control.