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TIL the clips of McBain featured in the Simpsons can be pieced together to make a full (mini) McBain movie.

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OGGEg TIL the FAA’s Aviation Safety Program (ASP) was so successful in educating pilots on aviation safety that it led to its own demise, as the easiest-to-fix accident causes were all addressed
vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.
9YlVD TIL the angel Gabriel was a messenger to Daniel in Jewish scripture, to Mary in Christian scripture, to Muhammad in Muslim scripture, and to Joseph Smith in Mormon scripture.
jNGon TIL that blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's first studio recordings were with a Texas high-school band called "A Cast of Thousands," which featured as its lead singer Stephen Tobolowsky, who later became a highly-recognizable character actor best known as "Ned Ryerson" in the film 'Groundhog Day'
R7obj TIL a new typeface, called Sans Forgetica, was designed to help students remember what they read by making reading slightly more difficult