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TIL The Simpsons producer's contract allows them to write the show without interference from Fox. This allows them to make fun of the network.

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PYQoL TIL when California two-spot octopuses (a specific species) were submerged in an ecstasy solution, they got calmer and more sociable with other octopuses they previously ignored. While this showed they react similarly to humans on MDMA, this was a pilot experiment that needs further research.
XE5GR TIL A McDonald's in Helena, Arkansas used to produce its own commercials in the 90's. Here's one of them.
OoYVY TIL: in 2013, Miriam Margolyes, or Professor Sprout from Harry Potter, announced she 'was a dyke' during her Australian Citizenship ceremony in front of the Prime Minister, to gasps from the crowd.
dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.
QJ8na TIL in the late 80s NASA studied house plants as a means of providing cleaner and purer air for their space stations. They found Peace Lilies and Chrysanthemums to be the best all rounders at air filtering.