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EjDV TIL “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” is the cold open for SNL because the original title of the show was “NBC’s Saturday Night” with no “live” in the name.
6lMw TIL two con men sold a fake painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit
A7rx TIL that after the fall of the Roman Empire the technology to make concrete was lost for 1000 years.
pYBje TIL baseball's Texas Rangers would not swap an August game series at the Houston Astros for a September series at the Rangers. Most of Houston was flooded at the time. Instead, the series was played in Tampa, Florida. The Rangers' explanation was that swapping would inconvenience ticketholders.
XEMlk TIL: There are 23,000 cataloged objects orbiting Earth in space, with the majority (14,950) produced by a Chinese anti-satellite test. A collision with even the tiniest of these fragments can be disastrous to any spacecraft.