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TIL We are closer to the date when The Jetsons is set (2062), than the original airing date of the series (1962)

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9YlpG TIL that in 2006, CNN mistakenly used an image of the Balrog from a 1977 Lord of the Rings calendar to represent Satan. Stephen Colbert recognized the image because he had that calendar and mocked CNN for the mistake.
oeRL TIL that there is a term for a family with no children, DINK, Dual Income No Kids. In the show Fairly Odd Parents, the Turner’s are often jealous of their rich, childless neighbours, the Dinklebergs.
loBnr TIL There is a still-commissioned U.S. Navy ship that has been held captive by North Korea for 50 years; the USS Pueblo.
xV8p5 TIL of Lisztomania, the obsessive fan hysteria surrounding the classical composer Franz Liszt. Admirers would fight over his locks of his hair, pull his carriage like horses, and carry glass vials of his old cigars and coffee dregs.
v1LWB TIL that Hitler was getting pig parts, cocaine and morphine injections sometimes several times a day