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TIL when Michael Gross, who played the Dad on Family Ties, was asked by Pat Sajak how he hoped the series would end, Gross replied “I hope they die in a plane crash.” He later explained he didn’t want the cast to have to get back together for contrived “reunion” shows.

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R7Od9 TIL that the earliest recordable instance of a chokeslam technique was a move made by President Abraham Lincoln.
gM9j4 TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses
R5gQ8 TIL that the "moving sofa problem" is an unsolved problem in mathematics. The "sofa constant" is the size of the largest object that can fit through a hallway with a right turn, and is somewhere between 2.2195 and 2√2
ELeo TIL - Friedrich Nietzsche held a pessimistic view on modern society and popular culture. He believed the press and mass culture led to conformity and brought about mediocrity resulting in a lack of intellectual progress, leading to the decline of the human species..
1aAlO TIL Gary Dahl became a millionaire almost overnight by selling rocks he got off a Mexican beach to Americans as pets for $4.