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TIL Ren and Stimpy, Doug, and Rugrats all premiered on the same day

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9wNGB TIL Tobe Hooper, director of the 1974 movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre, hoped for a rating of “PG” due to the “limited amount of gore”.
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9YnNr TIL that Cyrillic (the alphabet used to write Russian) wasn't created by Greek monks Cyrill and Methodius. They created the Glagolitic script. A disciple of theirs created Cyrillic with a few Glagolitic letters.
gK5W TIL in 1986 NASA asked Big Bird to enter into a space mission to encourage kids to get interested in space. The big bird suit was too big for the spacecraft meaning he could not fly, the spacecraft that he was meant to be on exploded as it was taking off.