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TIL There is a gun at the International Space Station and it belongs to the Russians

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LQNp0 TIL that 1993-1994 was when China had its first multi-camera sitcom, I Love My Family, inspired by Mandarin-dubbed episodes of Growing Pains and changed Chinese comedy forever.
E1Vbp TIL of a new type of traffic intersection that has been shown to prevent traffic accidents and decrease traffic congestion called the diverging diamond exchange
GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
LQDgP TIL that "Saved by the Bell" was a part of killing Saturday morning cartoons. The Day Saturday Morning Cartoons Died - Grunge