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TIL Star Trek: The Animated Series was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy.

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wKG6 TIL ‘Scot’ is a Old English word meaning 'tax’. To say that someone got off 'scot free’ means they avoided a tax they were expected to pay.
W7wVN TIL the youngest recorded death at the Golden Gate Bridge was five-year-old Marilyn DeMont, in 1945. Her father commanded her to jump before he followed by diving after her. A simple note was found in the DeMont car stating, "I and my daughter have committed suicide."
6EKW7 TIL since 1905 federal law has upheld that state government can fine or jail anyone not vaccinating, and as recently as 2019 this has been upheld (measles outbreak of 2019) and always been by the supreme court in our history
mxPDR TIL that the Top Gun movie (1986) contained no footage of the actors in the air because they all vomited while shooting.
e0AgE TIL that David Bowie did not suffer from heterochromia. Rather, he had a condition known as anisocoria, where one pupil is permanently more dilated than the other, as a result of a fistfight with a friend in his youth. That friend was George Underwood, his lifelong artistic partner.