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TIL Crickets chirping can tell you what the temperature is at night!

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awa89 TIL in 1949, the Admiral television company sponsored the Admiral Broadway Revue TV show on NBC and DuMont. Six months later, they canceled the show not because it was unsuccessful, but because it was so popular they couldn't keep up with the manufacturing demand for TV sets.
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