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TIL the original working title for the 1987 Fox sitcom Married With Children was "Not the Cosbys"

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kJ1l7 TIL that polar explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried in Grytviken, a settlement on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Sea. The settlement has a population of 3, but is only occupied in the summer.
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