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TIL that AMC cut the budget of ‘The Walking Dead’ by 20% for season 2 despite wanting twice as many episodes, and fired the show’s creator 3 days after he promoted the show at Comicon

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b95wa TIL Alan Shepard was 47 during Apollo 14 and was told he was "too old" to walk on the moon as he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space at the time. He hadn't flown anything for ten years since 1961 and had been diagnosed with a rare condition of the inner ear called Meniere's disease
wL4LP TIL "Puce" is French for "flea" and represents the dark reddish stain left when a blood-gorged flea is crushed against linen. It was a favorite color of Marie Antoinette.
X0pER TIL the blob of toothpaste on a toothbrush is called a nurdle and two toothpaste manufacturers have fought a lawsuit about it.
b9vEZ TIL that famous Mexican legend Zorro, was actually an Irishman called William Lamport
R78Aa TIL there is a race in Canada where people are racing in boats made of giant pumpkins.