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TIL that Matt Groening's parents' names in real life were Marge and Homer

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Wr8N TIL a year before “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk, he was caught with alcohol and a naked, passed-out 14-yr-old in his truck. Since then, his mother was convicted of forcing another vehicle off the road and his father was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system
mx6p TIL that Dan Harmon, creator of Community, based the series off of his real-life experiences at Glendale Community College.
1aegD TIL that Union County, Florida has a significantly higher rate of cancer than any other U.S. county (1,135 per 100,000 people).
9YrEM TIL that a doctor in the UK was targeted by vigilantes because they were confusing her professional title (paediatrician) with the word "pedophile"