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TIL Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a spin-off from the 90’s show Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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DQV8e TIL that 11-year old Ted Danson and his friends chopped down a bunch of billboards around Flagstaff, AZ, because they obstructed views of nature. He was caught when his father, a museum curator, learned that billboards for the Museum of Northern Arizona were spared.
78nyO TIL that the last words of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, were, “Have I played the part well? Then applaud me as I exit.”
x687o TIL that there was a 22-year-old Indiana boy named Brock Meister who survived a cancerous brain tumor and a car accident-induced internal decapitation (when the spine and skull fully separate from each other). The same neurologist also treated him for both life-threatening conditions.
Y6NW TIL there exists a book and Broadway play adaptation of The Big Lebowski melded with the writing style of William Shakespeare, titled “Two Gentlemen of Lebowski”.
AD6vn TIL In 1608, English writer Thomas Coryat wrote a book detailing his five months’ travel through Europe in which he described, among other things, use of the table fork as an eating utensil. He also introduced “umbrella” into English after noticing Italians shielding themselves from the sun.