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TIL The Jetsons originally only aired one season of 24 episodes, which were rerun continually throughout the next three decades

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lonrK TIL a farmer hid the construction and existence of a 4-bedroom castle under a huge pile of hay bales for 6 years. When he thought he’d outlasted the statute of limitations, he unveiled it to the public, the city council found out, and immediately ordered its destruction.
PYmjO TIL On a postflight tour in China in 1982, astronauts from STS-3 showed pictures of an emerald-colored lake taken over China to a crowd in Beijing and accidentally revealed a secret atomic test site.
vyKx TIL that Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway was inspired when screenwriter William Broyles, Jr deliberately stranded himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez in which a volleyball washed up on shore
LaLP TIL: Italians called it the French disease, the French called it the Italian disease, today we call it syphilis–and Columbus brought it to Europe from the New World.
ep0OL TIL Wall Street organizations uses a stock-buying routing method called Payment for Order Flow (PFoF) that's banned in Canada, U.K., and Australia - due to a high potential for fraud and manipulation.