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TIL The Muppets were featured on the first season of SNL but they got a poor reception and were fired. Jim Henson then created a new set of Muppets and and The Muppet Show, which was a take-off of SNL. It was a success.

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OG7y7 TIL that in 1917, during World War I, the British Army tried to train seagulls to poop on German U-boat periscopes to obscure their view. They even tested it with fake periscopes on beaches, but the gulls were more interested in stealing sandwiches than sinking submarines.
pEp4 TIL that townfolk from a small German town duped over 200 neo-Nazis by tricking them into a walkathon that raised over $12,000 for an anti-Nazi charity.
ZBxo TIL about Derek Black, son of former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black and Godson of David Duke. Derek; the host of a white nationalist radio show and heir-apparent leader of the “white nationalists” publicly renounced his beliefs and broke all ties with the group in 2012 - at the age of 23.
rDkW TIL: Kid Rock demanded ticket prices for his 2013 tour be set at $20 and beers be $4 for a 12 ounce. He also withheld at least 1000 tickets a night that could not go to ticket master.
xOMg TIL A boy wrote Jay Leno asking him to take him to school because he told his friends that Jay was his uncle. So Jay picked the kid up in his Lamborghini Countach and drove him to school. When dropping him off, he yelled out the window “Say hi to your mom for me!” and drove away.