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TIL Futurama's Jurassic Bark Episode Is Based On a True Story

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e0eOJ TIL that “MAS*H” still holds the record for the most-watched episode of a television series at a total of 105.97 million viewers on the series finale in the United States. It was the most watched televised broadcast from 1983 until Super Bowl XLIV in 2010.
6dvl TIL that Oregon’s entire coastline is public land: “The Oregon Beach Bill decreed that all land within sixteen vertical feet of the average low tide mark belongs to the people of Oregon and guarantees… free and uninterrupted use”
R8Z9 TIL that human saliva contains a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine
ZM6R TIL Soviet gulag prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
9YXvB TIL the word "Jedi" originated from the Japanese term "Jidaigeki," which refers to a drama set, set during the Edo period of Japanese history, when samurais were still in activity.