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TIL Beavis And Butt-head was blamed for the death of an 8 month old struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass. It was later discovered the ball-thrower didn’t have cable TV and did not watch the show.

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QN9JM TIL that when the Fox TV channel began showing pro football in 1994, network executives had to promise the NFL and reporters that Bart Simpson would not be a commentator during games
ZpKvp TIL in 1876, the government of Japan forced Korea to admit Japanese merchants and trading vessels into the Korean port city of Busan in a gradual attempt to force the Korean government to abandon its policy of isolationism
KYOPw TIL that a day before Hitler’s suicide, he ordered a cyanide pill be given to his dog Blondi (who died as a result) to test its potency before he used it.
R7ZR8 TIL that Arthur Miller was Marilyn Monroe’s last husband before she died. They divorced in 1961, she died in 1962.
b6yQa TIL that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns an enormous collection of fossils as a kind of byproduct of the Corps’s actual, more logistical purpose: flood control.