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TIL that 1993-1994 was when China had its first multi-camera sitcom, I Love My Family, inspired by Mandarin-dubbed episodes of Growing Pains and changed Chinese comedy forever.

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wL7aY TIL wath the Siberian Corridor was. It was a strip of steppe from Mongolia to the east of Europe, used by nomadic population in their movements from east to west. Huns, Turks and Mongols all went through there. The corridor was closed by the Russian Empire expansion toward Siberia.
6yjm TIL: In the 1500’s, the Iroquois tribes designed quite an elaborate political system. This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. Such a complex political arrangement was unknown in Europe at that time.
AKrl TIL the boring, monotone lecture Ben Stein delivers in Ferris Bueller was originally meant to be off-camera, but the student extras laughed so hard at his voice that John Hughes decided to shoot it. It was a topic that Stein actually knew a lot about, supply-side economics, and it was improvised.
dMDj TIL that buried within the code of GoldenEye for the N64 is a fully-functional ZX Spectrum console emulator complete with ten games. It wasn’t discovered until 2012.
KAeQ TIL a 9 year old boy ran away from home to fight in the Civil War. The army adopted him as their drummer boy, being too young to be a soldier. At age 11, he became the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history, and decades later he retired as the last veteran of the civil war on active duty.