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TIL about ‘Downtown’ (1999), a show in which the writers would transcribe overheard conversations IRL, hire non/new actors, and improvise dialogue—despite an Emmy nom, it was cancelled after one season.

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XEbaP TIL Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe, was a Japanese-American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant. He survived a botched assassination, where he was shot three times in the head.
VMe5Q TIL that during WWII, out of pure curiosity, Richard Feynman cracked the three safes at Los Alamos containing all the secrets to the atomic bomb - and didn't break a sweat.
5VXJk TIL Independent Chinese families are classified accordingly to their stove. In the case of a father's death, the eldest son inherits the stove and the younger brothers transfer the coals to their own new stoves. This invites the Stove god to join their new households and is called "pun chu".
88OV TIL there’s a web site devoted to tracking how far cars can still drive once the tank shows “empty”.
m1d4Y TIL: 42% of Americans believe in ghosts and 18% believe they had a paranormal experience according a 2009 Pew Research. In recent years, there has been a rise in Queer Ghost Hunters across several states looking for queer ghosts to record the ghost's stories.