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TIL the TV show "Cops" was greenlit because of the 1988 writer's strike when the network had to find entertainment that didn't need union writers.

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myZE TIL that the first person to perform a cardiac catheterization was not allowed to perform the procedure on a patient, so he decided to perform it on himself and then walk all the way to the X-ray room with the catheter still in his arm to prove that the tube had reached his heart.
woZAo TIL that the largest ship currently in service is 1,312 feet long and 200 feet wide, the HMM Algeciras. Why not make one bigger? It will not fit in the Suez Canal.
nerLo TIL Drywall is called “Drywall” because before it, walls were made with plaster layers that were wet and took time to dry between layers. Drywall came in to the market as a faster and cleaner alternative to the “wet wall” process of plaster layers.
ep7pk TIL one of the nicknames of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 'the Titanic of the Great Lakes'. The ship famously sank in a November storm on Lake Superior. All of her 29 crew were lost.
AxpB TIL Disney hired a convicted child molester to direct their 1995 movie “Powder”. Victor Salva pleaded guilty to oral sex with a 14 year old actor on set of a previous movie.