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TIL The Drew Carey Show Has Only Ever Had Its First Season Released on DVD or Digitally. It Is Unlikely That The Other Eight Seasons Will Ever Be Available to Purchase or Stream Due to Copyright Issues With the Music Used in the Show.

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9YWrX TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
8a7pV TIL about the Indian skin trade in which “poor women are being trafficked and duped into selling their skin to be used for penis and breast enlargements in the global cosmetic surgery market” (Reuters)
5Q4Q TIL Adam West, Clint Eastwood, and Burt Reynolds were all offered the role of James Bond, and all declined, believing James Bond should always be played by a Brit.
QJnLd TIL in 2009 a passenger landed a multi engine airplane after the pilot died just 7 minutes into the flight
4X9rg TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.