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TIL in 2005 the band Bloodhound Gang wrote a song where the lyrics consist of lines said by Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons

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Leyd TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1953 that set the first self-driving cars to be released around 2015
RrVl TIL that DC hero Power Girl’s huge breast size was a result of the artist deliberately drawing them bigger every issue to get his editors to pay attention to his work
9AG7 TIL A neuroscientist accidentally included his own brain scan while studying the brain scans of serial killers and diagnosed himself as a psychopath. He’s related to 7 accused murderers including Lizzie Borden.
7rvNZ TIL Elvis Costello is banned from appearing on SNL after refusing to play “Less Than Zero” at Lorne Michaels’ request. He saw it pointless to play a song about UK politics over here. He played a few bars, then kicked into “Radio, Radio,” which was a criticism of corporate-controlled broadcasting.
X0Xdr TIL that Arthur Hill Hassall (1817– 1894) was a British physician, and a pioneer in the use of the microscope as a tool in medicine and public health. In 1846 he published a two-volume study, ‘The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease’, the first English textbook on the subject