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TIL Production on ALF was tense. The set was elevated and full of trap doors constantly being reset. Due to technical issues the 30 minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot. One especially stressful day Max Wright attacked ALF and the two had to be separated.

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wLQnW Today I learned that the term white elephant came from the king of Thailand giving giant white elephants as gifts to people he did not like in hopes of bankrupting the receiver of the gift with the expenses of caring for an elephant.
ooZA TIL the mathematician George Dantzig solved two of the most famous problems of statistics, because he came into class too late to hear that they were supposed to be unsolvable
4X1eX TIL At a radiology conference in 1974, Lee Rogers, a physician who had mistakenly swallowed a soda can tab during a basketball game, addressed the hazard to the medical community, which lead to a redesign of a non-removable tab that reduced untold amounts of litter and injury to humans and wildlife.
QGEe TIL that James Sinegal, former CEO of Costco, said he did not care about Wall Street analysts who had criticized him for putting good treatment of employees and customers ahead of pleasing shareholders. A favorite quote attributed to Sinegal is “you have to take the shit with the sugar”
1aPQr TIL of extreme skier and adventure-seeker Steve McKinney, the first to break 200 km/h on skis and the first to fly a hang-glider off Mount Everest. He was killed by a drunk driver.