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TIL The Red Green Show ran for 15 season with a total of 300 episodes.

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Jabj TIL the FBI was right to watch Earnest Hemingway. He was a failed KGB spy.
PmOZ TIL that an Iraqi doctor with insurgent ties killed 43 military patients during the Iraq War by “treating” their bleeding with anticoagulants.
neO9B TIL "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song as well as a Golden Raspberry Award for the Worst Original Song but lost both to "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas, and "Walk Into the Wind" from Showgirls, respectively.
pY5eA TIL an estimated 400,000 children were fathered by occupying forces in Germany during World War II.
KY6YQ TIL about PERV (Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus), a virus embedded in the gene of pigs. It has been studied as a risk factor in pig-to-human transplants.