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TIL that the peak of TV attention can be assigned an exact date: Sunday, September 9, 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first appearance on television, on CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show. Its 82.6 percent share of US viewers has never been equaled or bettered.

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0d9e5 TIL that not only autistic people have problems with social etiquette, allistic people (non-autistic) tend to avoid engage in social interaction with them.
lo5w1 TIL The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar. The one-of-a-kind discovery helps put flesh on the bones of these extinct creatures, opening a new window on the biology of a group that dominated Earth for more than 160 million years.
oBBoo TIL Juan Carlos I (former King of Spain) once told Hugo Chavez to shut up (¿¡Por qué no te callas!?) when the Venezuelan leader called a former Spanish prime minister a "fascist" and "less human than snakes."
OpY7 TIL of the Russky Bridge, a bridge that connects Vladivostok to Russky Island and cost roughly $1.1 billion US to build. It has enough capacity for 50,000 cars daily but only 5000 people live on the island so it is largely seen as a huge waste of money
VBQWG TIL in 2020 scientists captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own (roughly 300 light years away), that is to say it marked the first time astronomers have observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun.