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TIL Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane was booked on the first plane that hit the World Trade Centre on 9/11 but missed the flight by 10 minutes because his travel agent wrote the wrong time on his itinerary.

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pZyp TIL: The answer-question format on Jeapardy! came about after a string of quiz show scandals. Audiences were skeptical that contestants were given the answers, so Merv Griffin built an entire show around giving answers.
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b97GZ TIL a riddle from 1688 goes. "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003 the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored though surgery. They could not.
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