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TIL America is still declared a “State of Emergency”

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8eLVX TIL during its 12-season run, Curb Your Enthusiasm won two Emmy Awards (Directing, 2003 and Editing, 2012) out of 55 total nominations, including 11 nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series without a win.
0Gwv TIL prescription drugs kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.
vPjw8 TIL that Dave Coulier, the actor who played Joey Gladstone on “Full House,” has claimed to be the subject of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “You Oughta Know.” Bob Saget claimed to have been present at the dinner Alanis mentions in the song.
0wVN5 TIL about the the transmitter for WLW radio outside Cincinnati, until the output was reduced in 1939 from 500,000 watts, would cause lights to not turn off until WLW engineers rewired houses, a nearby hotel sign never went dark and farmers reported hearing WLW through their barbed-wire fences.
AM8n TIL The Dead Kennedys recorded a song called “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” in response to skinheads who mistook them for a neo-nazi group due to the title of the song “California Über Alles”