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TIL that the TV show Mork & Mindy is a spinoff of a specific episode of Happy Days, which featured Mork trying to take Richie back to his home planet. The show was trying to capitalize on the popularity of the recently released Star Wars.

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epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936
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