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TIL: On Johnny Carson’s final show, Comedy Central went dark, leaving a video gone-fishing sign saying the people are out “watching Johnny Carson’s last show and so should you.”

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oBe07 TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
Zb6o TIL according to research conducted by OkCupid, black women are the least popular on online dating sites even though they are the most likely to respond
xnN0 TIL the word “idiot” came from Ancient Athens and originally meant people who don’t care about or participate in public affairs or politics.
697lw TIL Action Comics #1 is so valuable that even a copy graded as low as 1.5/10 by the CGC still sold for $175,000.