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W5BN TIL that Arthur is the second-longest running animated series in the U.S. behind The Simpsons
yQXPl TIL that in 1998, the cast of Half Baked and the cast of Dirty Work shared a hotel, leading to Bob Saget's cameo in Half Baked
M7AWb TIL Kentucky has the strictest school bus safety standards in the USA, e.g. requiring 9 emergency exits. It was in response to a tragic 1988 school bus crash where a fire killed 27 trapped children and adults. The 1977 bus had only 2 exits and ran off flammable gasoline held in an unprotected tank.
RO7w TIL: Not only did a private US company pay for the research for the inexpensive “space pen” NASA uses, but the pen worked so well that the Soviets bought it, too.
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