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TIL that the name of the musical from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Nightman Cometh, is a parody of a real-world musical called The Iceman Cometh.

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pYedQ TIL the herbivorous/omnivorous equivalent of a scavenger is a detritivore
loJvr TIL New Line Cinema gambled their entire company on the success of the Lord of The Rings franchise, by committing to all three films for > $270M up front.
5GZr TIL if Pinocchio were to say “My nose will grow now”, it will create a paradox called the Pinocchio’s paradox.
GAYyG TIL NASA estimates that Voyager 1 will have enough power to continue communicating until 2025, 48 years after its launch. Its fuel for running the communications equipment, plutonium-238 dioxide, will have decayed too much to generate the required heat to keep them operating.
aak9 TIL In 1992, a man in Texas was sent to death row for murdering his kids by arson. He was executed by lethal injection in 2004. In 2009, through advances in technology, it was found that the fire was likely accidental. According to an expert, “There was no item of evidence that indicated arson.”