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TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but the idea was deemed to be “too upsetting to the audience”.

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6kAX TIL women couldn’t wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993
9YRyX TIL Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury threw a party where he had dwarves walk around with plates full of cocaine strapped to the tops of their heads, as an offering to his guests.
X0LGE TIL of a drug that was developed by Nazi Germany in 1944 called D-IX. Intended for military use as an overall performance enhancer, its ingredients consisted of only methamphetamine, cocaine and oxycodone. D-IX never went into production as the war ended.
e0yon TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.