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TIL the Simpsons were made yellow so when people were flipping through channels, they’d see a flash of yellow and know The Simpsons was on.

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Me7eW TIL that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln, the president of the USA) was a wrestler in his youth and that he invented the chokeslam (the chokeslam is not mentioned in the article).
4XW6a TIL there was a dog officially held as a POW by the Japanese during World War II
5PGp TIL there is a reservoir of 145-million-year-old seawater beneath Chesapeake Bay
LbvV TIL the majority of states have official “ancient emblems"—several of which are fossils. An effort by an 8-year-old girl to give South Carolina its own official state fossil was thwarted however, because some lawmakers object to officially recognizing the woolly mammoth fossil on religious grounds.
N76r6 TIL about Nasubi, a contestant on a Japanese game show who was forced to live alone, naked, in a small room and required to enter contests in magazines to provide him with physical objects, such as food and cloths. He never knew he was on TV as the producers had lied to him. Show ran for 15 months.