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TIL the first TV reality show (An American Family) aired in 1973 on PBS and followed the Loud family: Bill, Pat, and their five children. This was nearly 20 years before Real World debuted on MTV.

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Lkg9r TIL that supposedly the Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill Sonata) was made by Giuseppe Tartini in an attempt to recreate a song the Devil had played to him in a dream.
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