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TIL There was already tentacle porn in Japan during Napoleon's times

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8awya TIL the actor originally cast as Charlie in Charlie's Angels was drunk and couldn't record his lines. The show's creator called John Forsythe last minute, he recorded the lines for the first episode in the middle of the night, then went back to bed. He kept that role for 5 years.
ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.
Y4pv TIL that after watching an episode of House M.D., a doctor from Germany learned of a patient’s previously unknown hip replacement and correctly diagnosed them with cobalt poisoning, saving their life.
oRJlR TIL that while the Theme from Star Trek does not play its lyrics when Star Trek airs, it does have unheard lyrics written by Gene Rodenberry, the creator of the franchise. As such, the Rodenberry gets paid every time an episode of ST:TOS airs
xV7e7 TIL that in 1798 Congressman Matthew Lyon was tried and convicted under the Sedition Act for criticizing John Adams.