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TIL that in Tina Fey's childhood, her parents allowed her to watch Young Frankenstein, SNL, Monty Python, Marx Brothers, and the Honeymooners, but she was not allowed to watch The Flintstones.

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gbX4 TIL that HMS Erebus, part of Franklin expedition lost for nearly 170 years was found near the island called in Inuit language “The big boat sank here” (14:30 in podcast)
lQAN TIL that whenever acclaimed author Douglas Adams faced writer’s block, he reminded himself that he was the only student ever to be awarded a “10/10” in creative writing by his teacher, Frank Halford.
QJRmM TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954
d8Mxj TIL that according to Fermi estimation, the average person meets 10.76 murderers in their lives
gpvW TIL of the Toynbee Tiles, cryptic messages placed in asphalt on roads in about two dozen major cities in the United States and South America. They started appearing the 1980s and while there have been different suspects no one has been clearly identified as the creator of them