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TIL the fastest cancellation of a TV show belongs to Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos, which was pulled midway through its first episode

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PYEBg TIL that none of the actors in the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast from 1938 intended for the citizens of America to take it as seriously as they did, considering that many of the scripts were improvised and most of the sound effects came from houseware items
ngmb TIL-Originally, Toto in the Wizard of Oz was supposed to be a dachshund named Otto, but anti-German sentiments at the time, a Cairn Terrier, Toto, was used instead.
0ddVp TIL Mary, mother of Jesus is mentioned in the Quran more than in the Bible.
ADG4n TIL there are a number of voice recordings of Theodore Roosevelt from his 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign
6ElOY TIL there was a sign language developed in the Rennell Island by a deaf person living there, that was only used by him and his acquaintances and disappeared when he died.