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TIL when Doctor Who head writer, Steven Moffat, was asked by his wife to write a sitcom, he had a drunken lunch came into her office wrote the word “coupling” on a piece of paper and left saying “remind me about this later”, it went on to have four series.

N0VJ TIL that while working on an early show for Cartoon Network, Archer creator Adam Reed and animator Matt Thompson were generally “heavily intoxicated” at work, once lighting a set on fire “because they thought it would look cool.”
b60E9 TIL that the Danish word for "Pimp" is "Alfons," after the protagonist in the play Monsieur Alphonse by Alexandre Dumas, fils. As a result, although "Alfons" is the name of popular children's book character, the name remains very rare. As of 2016, there were only 8 people named "Alfons" in Denmark.
ADW67 TIL Drake's 2018 hit "Nice for What" sampled Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor," which sampled Wu-Tang's "Can It All Be So Simple," which sampled Gladys Knight's cover of Streisand's "The Way We Were." So the writer of "The Way We Were" is also credited on "Nice for What" but no part of his writing is in it
ggE4 TIL that in 2002, Boeing delivered a 767 aircraft to China for use as President Jiang’s “Air Force One.” Chinese test pilots discovered a reported 20-30 extremely sophisticated surveillance devices embedded into sensitive areas of the plane, including the Presidential bedroom.
9apm TIL if you want to know if someone is a narcissist, you can probably just ask them, according to a study in 2014.