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TIL that Arthur is the second-longest running animated series in the U.S. behind The Simpsons

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4W8b TIL during WW2, Krystyna Skarbek became a British spy and smuggled intelligence reports and anti-tanks guns from Hungary to the Allies. When she was arrested by Gestapo, she bit her tongue hard enough to bleed and convinced them she had tuberculosis, which made them release her.
W71Ed TIL that Daryl Hall and John Oates have never called themselves Hall & Oates. Every album they've released has each person's full name on the front cover, and they have stated in interviews that they dislike the shortened moniker.
gMod7 TIL of Léo Major. A Canadian soldier who single handedly captured 93 German soldiers and liberated the city of Zwolle, broke his back, went AWOA from hospital, rejoined his troops and then captured another 100 Germans and re-iberated the city of Zwolle again, by himself.
vP4p8 TIL Euler's often wrote the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
R7va8 TIL that for over 10 years, the likes and dislikes have remained perfectly neutral on a scene from Futurama that was uploaded to YouTube.