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TIL: In 2011, the US Attorney General personally asked David Simon to create a 6th Season of HBO’s The Wire. His response? Sure – as soon as you end the war on drugs.

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AD0pw TIL of The Architect of Sleep a Scifi/fantasy novel about an alternate earth where raccoons developed opposable thumbs instead of apes. It was intended to be a trilogy.But, furries became obsessed with it, causing the author to refuse to finish it.
OrA1 TIL “Pig-Pen” from the Peanuts cartoon was a parody of “Piggy” from Lord of the Flies. In his premiere, he said, “I haven’t got a name…people call me things…real insulting things.”
j6e8v TIL the game "Exploding Snap" was originally mistranslated as "Exploding Snape" in the German version of Harry Potter, leaving fans to wonder if Harry and his friends were conjuring tiny Snapes they could blow-up for fun
xJwD TIL police departments in Canada give out “positive tickets” when they see people doing something positive.
ADvon TIL that while humans make up just 0.06 gigatons of the world's biomass (just 0.01%) they have destroyed over 450 gigatons of biomass over the pass 10,000 years.