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TIL Trey Parker hated the episode ‘Make Love, Not Warcraft’ so much, he tried getting the executive producer to pull the show from airing, and couldn’t even sleep the night it aired. The episode is regarded as one of the best in the series.

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Xnpj TIL Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted
gm5L TIL tuberculosis wiped out 50% of the males in a troop of savanna baboons after they consumed tainted meat. The more aggressive males died, leaving their less aggressive peers to create and pass down a uniquely unaggressive culture.
yV5wl TIL the US Air Force lost an aircraft worth $1 billion in today's money because General Electric wanted a photo with a bunch of aircraft all close together
VrkD TIL In 1996 the infamous serial killer ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’ was almost strangled to death in custody, before being saved by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka 'The Stockwell Strangler’.
Omg1 TIL that about 1% of the population is born with a tiny hole above their ear, a sinus thought to be an voluntionary remnant from fish gills.