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TIL That thanks to the series finale of St Elsewhere, and using actual cross over links (i.e. characters appearing on other shows), it can be argued the greater implication is that dozens of other shows existed in the mind of an autistic child.

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QJWek TIL women get more negatively affected from a breakup but make a much better recovery and come out stronger from the experience, while men take much longer to come to terms with the separation, never fully recover, and simply move on.
7bvp TIL a key aerospace scientist in the U.S. named Qian Xue Shen, was forced to return to China during the Red Scare, where he founded the Chinese space and missile programs.
PYVvZ TIL when Ray Davies of The Kinks took his first driving test, he ran a woman over. When he got out to help her, he forgot to put the handbrake on and the car rolled over her shopping.
4BAa TIL That P.Sherman from Finding Nemo is a pun of the word fisherman, since most of the production crew was Filipino, this is how they pronounced it naturally with their accents.
5pKp TIL sea level rise is attributed to ice melting on land, not ice melting on the sea. Like a glass of water with ice; the volume doesn’t change when it melts, so we need to beware of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice melting.