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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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Y6mW TIL the Lobsters we eat are generally really young and thus only a fraction of the size they grow to be in the wild. Older/Larger Lobsters are thought to be less tasty, and are a species that mates more prolifically with each year, making killing a 100+ yo behemoth a conservation issue.
mOdY TIL Guillermo del Toro was working with Disney on an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows but left the production team as an executive said: ‘Could you give Toad a skateboard and make him say, 'radical dude’. Del Toro responded: 'It’s been a pleasure…’
KOmm4 TIL in 1633, a Turkish gentleman by the name of Lagâri Hasan Çelebi launched himself into the air on a rocket filled with 140 lbs of gunpowder. He landed in the river and was rewarded with silver by the Sultan. Mythbusters later tested this story in 2009 and considered it implausible.
WkPy9 TIL The Brothers Grimm, being from a lower class, were excluded from university admission & tuition aid due to being poor. But upon publishing their 1st volume of 86 folk tales, they received honorary doctorate degrees from universities in Berlin, Marburg, & Wrocław.
gro94 TIL In 1965, an international phone call was 'only' $12 for the first 3 minutes; adjusted for inflation, that would come out to $101.16 in 2021.