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TIL That the character Arnold from "Hey Arnold!" existed long before the shows 1996 premiere, going back to 1988 being a clay animation featured on several episodes of Sesame Street.

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M7jg7 TIL one of the most successful Australian television exports is about ... a kangaroo. 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo' is unusually intelligent, able to "open doors, operate a radio and pick up all manner of objects". 300 million people in 128 countries watched three seasons and a movie from 1968 to 1970.
0wJR5 TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.
8WEX TIL: Between 1896 and the 1940s, thousands of people paid to see premature babies being incubated at circus sideshows. Since most hospitals didn’t have the funding available to provide incubators, it was the best chance to safe the infant’s lives.
d8jZ8 TIL the earliest concept of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack did not include Bee Gees songs, but the band ultimately decided to contribute and wrote songs for the film "virtually in a single weekend".
R7JRQ TIL the Dwarves in Middle Earth were created by an impatient Angel who wanted to have children of his own and teach them his crafts. Eru Ilúvatar (God) and creator of the Elves and Men was not pleased by this disobedience, but forgave his son and then adopted the Dwarves, allowing them to exist.