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TIL that Hello became a common greeting as a result of invention of the telephone.

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nWE1Y TIL that the 1961 game show "You're in the Picture" was so poorly received that it was cancelled after only two episodes. The second episode consisted entirely of the host apologizing to the audience for how bad the first episode had been.