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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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bbya TIL that there are 90 N64 games with the number 64 somewhere in the title.
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