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TIL Bud Ruskin wrote the pilot script for "The Mod Squad" in 1960, based on his experiences working on an undercover sheriff's detective squad of young people. ABC put it on the air in 1968, when it was probably more successful than it would have been in the pre-hippy era.

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VjRQ TIL that in 2007, the First Mount Olive Free Will Baptist Church purchased a $150,000 Bentley, neglected to pay their $12,000 water bill, and defaulted on their $1.5 million mortgage. The church was struck by lightning and the subsequent fire completely destroyed the building.
058j TIL that 70 years ago, the Army hired 6 women mathematicians for a secret project and they became the worlds first computer programmers.
e8LJ TIL that possibly the world’s oldest surviving written text (around 4500-years old), known as the ‘Instructions of Shuruppak’, gives the following advice - “Do not pass judgment when you drink beer.”
LkPaZ TIL Coral spawning is known as the reproduction by which they release their eggs and sperm all at the same time. This means that they all orgasm at the same time. This particular event happens all around the world in synchronicity once every year.
aw4ZJ TIL 9 year old Rachel Beckwith started a $300 fundraiser for clean water. She asked friends and family to donate $9 instead of B-day presents. She only raised $220, and sadly died in a car accident soon after. Her story spread, her $220 grew to $1.2 million, providing clean water to 37,770 people.