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TIL that MIT students can get a course credit for surfing Reddit - while doing research and analysis on the site and its community.

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Eg9Kx Today I learned that the Sesame Street and Muppets classic song Mah Nà Mah Nà was originally written by an Italian composer for a soft porn movie featuring Swedish sauna babes
7Ljp TIL of the dramatic device “Chekhov’s Gun”. “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
N7n5E TIL that the United States, and not Saudi Arabia or Russia, is the largest oil producer in the world
Lk8Ap TIL that the first episode of 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - the show that gave America its first looks at Elvis, the Beatles, and the Doors, among other acts - is considered lost. What makes this extra tragic is that it is also the TV debut of the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.