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TIL FOX owns the rights to the Simpsons until 2082

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5YNl8 TIL character actor Richard Deacon, best known for playing Dick Van Dyke’s boss on the Dick Van Dyke Show, was a gourmet chef. He wrote several cookbooks, and even hosted a cooking show in Canada.
rnQ0 TIL in Jamaica there’s a union for musicians. This is my father’s card from the 1970’s.
Opl6 TIL that the reason why development for the male contraceptive RISUG/VaselGel is so slow is because it will directly compete with the female birth-control pills and big pharma does not want that to happen.
jNdgE TIL A convicted killer had his death sentence thrown out when it couldn’t be proven that he had assaulted a girl he had murdered. Believing he was now immune, he sent a taunting letter to the prosecutor, admitting the assault. It was used to successfully re-convict him to death.
R7grQ TIL that in the womb, an embryo/fetus grows 250,000 new neurons per minute – a million neurons every 4 minutes – for 9 straight months.