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TIL The Honeymooners (1955-1956) sitcom was so successful that its formula (big oaf husband, smart sassy wife, zany neighbor) have been used on hundreds of other shows like The Flintstones, Jeffersons, Roseanne, Simpsons, Family Guy, King of Queens, Home Improvement, Family Matters, Martin, etc...

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pv9e TIL Hugh Jackman is the founder of a charity coffee company where 100% of the profits go to worldwide education, community development, and new business development.
Wkxb4 TIL under Arizona's "Stupid Motorist Law," if you become stranded after driving through barricades to enter a flooded road, you will be charged for your emergency rescue.
oRr5Y TIL About Georg Gärtner a member of the Afrika Korps who escaped from his POW camp in the US in September 1945 rather than being repatriated to an area of Germany under Russian control. Living under an assumed identity Gärtner lived in the US before "surrendering" in the 1980s.
x9Gg TIL: Liberia was a founding member of the UN and a successful African nation…until 1980 when a USA-backed coup assassinated the President, and executed the entire government. Liberia collapsed into a civil war and never recovered.
16v4P TIL that Leonardo da Vinci never said "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return." John Secondari, an American TV writer, came up with it for a TV episode about da Vinci in 1965.