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TIL that the world’s shortest running TV show, Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos, was pulled off the air and cancelled halfway through it’s initial broadcast.

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P111Z TIL: 50 year old men traveling alone on foot are the most likely victims of wild boar attacks.
0wrX5 TIL Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, who personally intervened and stopped the My Lai massacre, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action. However, after reading the citation, which included a fabricated account of him rescuing a young girl under heavy fire, he threw his medal away.
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.
LDJp TIL that the theme song for Nick’s “The Amanda Show” is a remix of music from a level in Spyro the Dragon - both were credited to the same guy, who wrote all of the music for the original Spyro trilogy: Stewart Copeland.
4keAo TIL about Pak Bean, a man from Pakistan that impersonates Mr Bean