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TIL The Simpsons are yellow, because creator Matt Groening thought it was a perfect way for channel surfers to stop and watch, when they caught a flash of yellow on their televisions.

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a8YEM TIL of 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident, where a failed attempt by North Korean forces to extract a recon team by submarine led to a 49 day manhunt across the city of Gangneung, with some of the 39 man crew believed to have succeeded in returning to North Korea.
b8oE TIL that 95% of the avocados on sale in the world are descended from a single tree planted by Rudolph Hass, a Milwaukee postman, in 1926.
yQx4a TIL the original script for Fight Club was found to be 6 hours long in the initial reading. However, the film's creators managed to cut it down to 139 minutes.
yvlp TIL the Anji Bridge survived 8 wars, 10 major floods, numerous earthquakes, including a recent 7.2 magnitude quake. It is also the oldest surviving stone-arch bridge in the world.
NW18 TIL the biological theory that males are naturally promiscuous and females naturally monogamous was largely based on one study of fruit flies from 1948