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TIL that the FCC was largely responsible for the demise of Saturday morning Cartoons

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Ooypa TIL TIL Steve McQueen was demoted to private seven times by the Marines; he then saved the lives of other Marines by pulling them from a sinking tank, after which he was assigned to guard the presidential yacht of US President Harry Truman
QYne TIL in 2005 Stephen Colbert coined the term “truthiness” with its current meaning: the quality of seeming true but not necessarily being true.
wL49o TIL that people called "Searchers of the Dead" worked in 16th century London, examining corpses to determine whether they died of plague. Mostly elderly women, they often died of the diseases they were searching for.
GAvRN TIL there is a Worlds Ugliest Dog competion that has been held at the Sonoma-Marin fair in North CA since the 1970s
loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.