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TIL Phil Hartman, who voiced Simpsons characters Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure was murdered by his drug affected wife Brynn while he slept in 1998. SNL's Jon Lovitz partly blamed Andy Dick for re-introducing Brynn to drugs, which sparked an altercation where Lovitz smashed Dicks face into a bar.

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16w0r TIL Actress Ida Lupino was one of the first female directors with real industry power. Aside from Rod Serling himself, she’s the only person to both direct and star in episodes of The Twilight Zone. "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The Masks" are both critically regarded as among the show's best
8w5K TIL Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
d777 TIL a high school senior named Gaby Rodriguez faked a pregnancy for 6 months as a part of her social experiment for her senior project.
bZr9 TIL that Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov had grapheme-color synesthesia, which is when people see specific letters in specific colors.
Z8XEa TIL that Measles can cause immune amnesia. When infected with Measles the virus replaces your memory cells with new ones and essentially resets your immune system. You are then not only infected with Measles but are susceptible to infections that you previously had built immunity to.