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Today I learned that when Greg Daniels was hired for the Simpsons writing staff, he believed that the show was past its "glory years". This was in 1993.

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d8QaB TIL: Historically, in Britain, committing adultery with the Queen-Consort (the King's wife) was legally considered "high treason" , as was adultery with the wife of the heir to the throne, and fornication with the monarch's eldest unmarried daughter.
xVWM7 TIL In April 1918, Winston Churchill nominated Theodore Roosevelt to be the Allies plenipotentiary to Moscow. The plan was for Roosevelt to make a deal where Lenin reentered the war and the Allies would "safeguard the permanent fruits of the Revolution"
9wNMr TIL President Harding literally saved the U. S. Constitution which was deteriorating improperly stored at the State Dept. He had it preserved in a glass case.
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.
L7Ap TIL of the “2suit”, which is a suit designed for sex in space or other weightless environments.