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TIL in the '78 cartoon series The New Fantastic 4, the Torch wasn’t on the show because NBC’s parent company Universal was developing a live-action Torch series that never took flight. Urban legend was the Torch wasn’t around because NBC was afraid kids would set themselves on fire

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JQj4 TIL Guillermo Del Toro lost his notebook in the back of a London cab which contained most of the ideas for pans labyrinth. Cab driver returns the book as him Del Toro discussed comic books and had told the driver what hotel he was staying in. He received a $900 reward for its return.
xVMXo TIL the McDonald's Happy Meal debuted in the US in 1979 as the "Circus Wagon Happy Meal"
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