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TIL Seth MacFarlane was only 24 when he started Family Guy, becoming television’s youngest Executive Producer.

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N8Je TIL that the second flag of the Confederate States of America was, in the words of its creator W.T. Thompson, a symbol of the “supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race”.
DmZD TIL That King Charles II of Spain and last of the Spanish Hapsburg rulers was so inbred that his grandmother was also his aunt and all of his great-grandparents were cousins.
m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
mxOvR TIL It is standard in Japan to put cash on the counter rather than hand it to the person directly. Sometimes there is even a little tray you put your cash on and then the cashier takes the little tray.
kOAOg TIL that the actors playing the rebel soldiers on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, were all members of the Norwegian Red Cross. For their participation in the film, George Lucas made a large donation to the organization