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TIL The final episode of MAS*H was two and a half hours long and was viewed by an audience of 121 million.

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8ebKK TIL that when Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982, he got mocked and shamed. Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling spoke of the discovery, saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." In 2011 Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery.
PrNE TIL that Italy opened a casino during WW1 to get information from foreign diplomats while they relaxed. Today the Casino di Campione is one of Europe’s largest; its revenue makes the local area a tax-free zone.
l4ja TIL that when Noam Chomsky was asked to demonstrate his point that sentences could be grammatical yet nonsensical, he came up with the sentence: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
dDYAZ TIL Hungary had more casualties in World War 2 than the United Kingdom, or the United States
ep4rg TIL the Iroquois had many official Thanksgivings including Midwinter Thanksgiving, the Maple or Sugar-Making Thanksgiving, the Raspberry Thanksgiving, the Strawberry Thanksgiving, the Corn Planting, the Corn Hoeing, and the Complete Thanksgiving for the Harvest