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TIL Steve didn’t leave Blue’s Clues to go to college… he left because he was going bald.

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RkV7 TIL Twister was originally accused of being ‘sex in a box’ by its competitors in 1966.
PYpBL TIL the screaming at Beatles concerts was so loud that no one could hear them play—not even the Beatles themselves. It led them to stop playing live performances entirely, retreat to the studio, and ultimately create albums like Sgt. Pepper with no concern for performing any of the songs live.
X84X TIL when Norway was occupied by Germany during WWII, the Nazis instituted the Lebensborn program, under which Norwegian women were coerced into having the children of Nazi officers. The most famous Lebensborn child is Frida Lyngstad of the band ABBA.
pYMVp TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.
x65A7 TIL that in the 63 years since Niger gained independence from France, it has only had one peaceful transfer of power (2021).