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TIL that Dan Schneider, the weird manager in Nickelodeon’s Good Burger, created and wrote Victorious, iCarly, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and What I Like About You, making him the most successful writer/tv executive in Children’s Entertainment Television for the last thirty years.

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gMNnD TIL That before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people would keep live brown frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. It was found that the secretions made by the frogs basically act as antibiotics, killing bacteria, and keeping the milk fresh and safe to drink.