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TIL that Mr Rodgers influenced the Supreme Court to allow the recording of TV shows, arguing that it allows parents to become “much more active in the programming of their family’s television life. Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others.”

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5wY8 TIL that the series finale for Breaking Bad is titled “Felina”, being an anagram of “finale” and also because it can be broken into Fe, Li and Na (Iron, Lithium and Sodium); elements commonly found in blood, meth and tears respectively
P1PKg TIL there was an Arabic dub of Futurama that was advertised to kids and shown on a children’s channel, meaning it got heavily censored (both because of it’s target audience and because of the country’s restrictive laws)
LQXWQ TIL that cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch of their body. For comparison, an entire human head has about 100,000 total hairs.
1alMd TIL from 1957 Christopher Lee was known for roles in horror films, playing Dracula many times, Frankenstein's monster, and the Mummy. Lee tired of playing Dracula but felt obliged to continue as the films were sold on his participation - people would be out of work if the films weren't made
neEK9 TIL the reason why the majority of police uniforms in the U.S. are blue is a result of the civil war. After the war had ended, there was a surplus of blue uniforms which got repurposed for police officers. The color became associated with policing.