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TIL that the word "Karaoke" comes from Japan, meaning "empty orchestra" ("Kara Okestura")

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BgdgL TIL that, while Marge vs the Monorail is considered one of The Simpsons' best episodes, many of the writing staff consider it one of the worst and the beginning of the show's reliance on absurd cartoonish plots
WkAPo TIL Coyotes and Badgers can form hunting pairs, and work together.
wL6KJ TIL that Wyatt Earp, a deputy marshal in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 who took part in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral became a consultant for several cowboy movies and died in Los Angeles in 1926.
R5k5a TIL Paul Winchell was a comedian/ventriloquist who invented one of the earliest artificial hearts. Winchell also invented a flameless cigarette lighter, a garter belt without visible lines, and owned over 30 patents.
9Y7dm TIL the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $4M to help stop malaria in a plan to create genetically modified non-biting male mosquitoes released to mate with malaria-carrying wild females, giving birth to progeny that dies before reaching the human biting age.