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TIL In 1992, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry suggested the idea of a Star Trek sitcom featuring Lwaxana Troi

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XwvE TIL that suicide surpassed combat as the leading cause of military deaths in 2012 and has remained as the top killer ever since.
9RGp TIL a Norwegian comedian wanted to prove that songs could become club hits without making any sense, so he collected randoms words and names in Spanish (a language he did not speak) as lyrics and added cliché saxophones and accordion mixes. The song charted across Europe, reaching #1 in some places.
NjJ6 TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, though “His university records indicate that his exposure to ‘nuclear physics’ consisted of one class in 'atomic and molecular phenomena’ for which he earned an 'F’ grade.”
M7GQb TIL the Hoover Institution has a recording thought to be of a secretly bugged meeting of British and American POWs in a German POW camp.
x6M0k TIL Robin Williams improvised so much during the recording of Aladdin that the Disney team had over 16 hours of material, and his performance was deemed ineligible for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.