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a84xZ TIL that Police Squad, forerunner to The Naked Gun, was cancelled by ABC because casual audiences couldn't keep up with the rate of jokes, claiming "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it", stated by TV Guide as being "the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series"
yQPjw TIL That elephants show a preference for tusk use, just as humans have a dominant hand. Research shows that the majority of elephants are righties.
ow5Y TIL on the first day of Lent in the village of Brodilovo, Bulgaria, villagers practice ‘Dog Spinning.’ A dog is suspended above water on a rope. The dog is turned repeatedly in a given direction to wind the rope, then released so that it spins rapidly in the opposite direction as the rope unwinds.
6EaQX TIL that despite being the second most subscribed channel on YouTube, little is known about the company that produces children's channel Cocomelon. Both the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine have investigated and been unable to find anything.
gR7W TIL of a political and economic movement in the 1930s that purposes to replace politicians with scientists and engineers who they believed were better suited to guide a nation.