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TIL: The popular TV show "Daria" is actually a spin-off; with the titular character first appearing in a 1993 episode of "Beavis and Butthead" titled 'Scientific Stuff'.

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ARp7 TIL that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was elected with 100% of the votes. The ballot listed only him. Citizens are allowed to cross out his name and write in a new one, but they must step outside the election booth to do so, and write down the new name in front of election officials.
6E6Z8 TIL honey bees aren't native to North America. When they arrived from Europe they spread out faster than the colonists, and Native Americans considered the appearance of the "white man's fly" to indicate the approach of European settlers
oRA6o TIL In the 80s, there was a panic over reports that 1.5 million children per year being abducted in the US, but it turned out to be just bad record keeping.
BrWxW TIL The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti,a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years.He has won a total of 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
16g0P TIL In the 1970s East Germany had a coffee shortage so they made Vietnam into a supplier. East Germany invested the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars into Vietnam in exchange for half of Vietnam's coffee harvests for 20 years. By the first harvest in 1990 East Germany was already dissolved.