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TIL “Bart Gets An F” is the highest rated episode of The Simpsons. 33.6 million viewers tuned in during its original airing on October 11, 1990.

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W7La8 TIL that Van Halen's touring contract stated that if they found any brown M&M's backstage the band could cancel the concert at the full expense of the promotor. If brown M&M's were found it meant the promotor hadn't read every word of the contract and may have missed important safety-related items.
0d7Kp TIL The song "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British during the Revolutionary War to mock Americans. "Yankee doodle dandy" meant an uncultured, effeminate, American. When the Americans began winning, they started singing the song themselves to mock the British.
0d0eN TIL that even though the Vatican says a bishop or archbishop should be referred to as "His/Your Excellency", the Canadian government does not recognize it, and instead refers to bishops by their title only
0wPPv TIL, The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007) was borrowed from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, creator of James bond had loved in his youth.
KYvDw TIL about the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral, where Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini ceremonially disposed of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas. He had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the FDA after tests suggested the presence of botulism in some canned mushrooms he used on the pizzas.