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TIL that although the TV Series "I Dream of Jeannie" was never a hit for NBC, when it went into syndicated reruns independent stations in New York and Washington DC ran it in Prime Time and won their time slots against all shows on NBC, CBS and ABC. This was a first for a non-network show.

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69mAJ TIL the leader of a militia based out of Washington state moonlighted as a fake drug cartel baron as part of an extortion scam on his followers, sending death threats to them and their families.
8aRe4 TIL Dr. Nick Riviera (Hi everybody! Hi Dr. Nick!) is based on Elivis's real doctor, George Nichopoulos (Dr. Nic). He was "indicted on 14 counts of over prescribing drugs to Presley and several other patients."
PyVO Til once a star creates Nickle 56 through fusion it has a mere minutes of life left. This is because Ni 56 decays to Fe 56, which has one of the highest bonding energies of all isotopes and is the last exothermic reaction in nuclear fusion.
LQ5ar TIL the 2010 song Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce was based on the 1979 song Gotta Go Home by Boney M. The Boney M Song was actually based on the 1973 song Hallo Bimmelbahn by the German band Nighttrain. The wooing vocal sound is meant to sound like a train.
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.