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TIL The creators of South Park only start making a new episode 6 days prior to the episode’s air date. In 17 seasons, they have only missed the deadline once, when South Park Studios lost power.

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r9Bw TIL that paleontologists have no idea how dinosaurs had sex
MeeKm TIL that rockabilly singer Billy "Crash" Craddock went on a tour to Australia with fellow rock singers in 1959, and was met with screaming teenagers, not knowing that he was popular there and had a number one on the charts.
WkmR8 TIL of "Harambee", a Swahili word that means "All pull together" and describes a tradition of community self-help. It comes from the Hindi "har har Ambeh"; Indian workers on the Uganda Railway invoked Amba, the Hindu god of strength, for tasks requiring a team effort, such as lifting heavy loads.
6D8m TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic wrote an original song called “Dare to Be Stupid” in the style of DEVO. Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh: “I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and… I hate him for it, basically.”
Egxv7 TIL that cousin marriage is more like "a norm" than a "taboo/exception" and only half of the US states ban it.