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TIL of the sitcom pilot, "Where's Rodney" which aired once as a burn off during the summer on NBC in 1990, and was about a kid who can magically summon Rodney Dangerfield to give him advice.

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jggp TIL A kidnapped teen did not know he was kidnapped until he applied to college…13 years after his kidnapping.
l7MDB TIL there is a volcano on Mars that is 2.5 times as tall as Mount Everest and about the diameter of France
Y7BlW TIL Kratos has canonically lost to Shovel Knight in combat
8ajDX TIL that the last surviving wife of a Civil War veteran died just 6 months ago. They married in 1936 while she was 17 and he was 93. This practice was common so that young women could receive the veteran's Civil War pension ($73.13/month). She died in December 2020 at the age of 101.
OoPAY TIL a “son of a gun” used to mean a child born on a a naval ship of uncertain paternity (ie a soldier’s bastard).