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TIL Candice Bergen was the first female host of Saturday Night Live

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oBBvW TIL The Addams Family set was filled with light and bright colored walls and props
l7Wwa TIL Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond was a tribute to Syd Barrett who left the band in 1968 due to his drug use and declining mental health which impaired his ability to integrate with the band. The band felt guilty about removing him but were concerned about his severe mental health decline
X01OQ TIL that Elmer Fridrich and Emmet Wiley developed the halogen lamp at General Electric in Nela Park, Ohio in 1955. Fridrich figured out that one had to use a small amount of iodine surrounding the tungsten filament, which would allow it to burn at elevated temperatures.
epKMk TIL tetanus bacteria releases toxins that block your nerve receptors (mainly in your spinal cord) and cause muscle spasms.
OG1d6 TIL commercial aircraft can sometimes fly at ground speeds greater than the speed of sound. Air speed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air it is flying through—the higher ground speeds can happen when flying within fast winds such as the jet stream, which once created a GS of Mach ~1.1.