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TIL "Bridget Loves Bernie" was the #5 TV show of the 1972-73 season but was canceled after one year due to the controversy of its story of a wealthy Catholic girl marrying a Jewish cab driver. It was the highest-rated show ever to be canceled after one year.

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D1Nar TIL in the 1910s there were cases of people using the postal service to mail their children across long distances because postage was cheaper than a train ticket
ax8N TIL of the Blood Bikes, a network of UK organisations that consist of volunteer bikers who transport donated blood, breastmilk and organs quickly between hospitals
EK4X TIL that all unreleased Kennedy assassination documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. Among the items most sought after by researchers are some 1,171 documents still closed by the CIA on national security grounds.
69xQ TIL that, despite spanning five time zones, all of China runs on Beijing time. Sunrise in the city of Kashgar/Zhongquo (in Western China) officially occurs as late as 10:17 AM.
4XJQX TIL Mark Hoppus came up with the distinctive riff for the song 'Dammit' by playing around with an acoustic guitar that was missing two strings.