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TIL in 1997 that Fox was scheduled to air a Scott Baio sitcom titled "Rewind" as part of their fall lineup. They cancelled it two weeks before it's debut.

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W79j4 TIL a Goldman Sachs report believes close to 300 million jobs will be lost to AI. It could replace a quarter of the workforce in US and Europe.
VBwl4 TIL That George Jetson only works 3 hours a day and 3 days a week.
D11ov TIL there is a theory that homosexuality might be caused by the mother's immune system---which may mistake male-specific proteins on the Y chromosome as pathogens and "attack" them, leading to developmental quirks
KYmZB TIL that Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt after a bystander hit the assassin with a purse
ZpDlY TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.