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TIL starting in 1957 and through the next thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced 249 individual cartoon series for television—totaling over 1,200 hours of original episodes.

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oBMAA TIL During WW1, prohibitionists in the US successfully used anti-German sentiment to rally against alcohol, since many brewers were German or of German ancestry.
LQARm TIL Tom Welling was 24 years old when he was cast as Clark Kent in Smallville. Clark is 14 years old in season one.
NgRE TIL that in 1956 the US government placed beer near a nuclear explosion to see whether it would still be drinkable after a nuclear fallout, it was.
VMYNk TIL the church of scientology maintains a facility known as “The Hole” where at least 100 of the church’s members have been confined for months and even years. Guarded by “pursuit teams”, razor wire, motion sensors, and spikes, it’s described by ex-members as comparable to a North Korean death camp.
R4lw TIL that a red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds