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TIL The Simpsons has featured deaths of at least ten named characters.

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nZL9 TIL the Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
wBa8 TIL Saturday morning cartoons vanished in the 2000’s largely due to the “Children’s TV Act” requiring stations to have 3 hours of educational/informational (E/I) programming per week. To avoid the stations affiliates scheduling the E/I during their weekday shows, Saturday morning’s took the hit.
69lnm TIL in 1935, the U.S. military attempted to stop a volcanic eruption in Hawaii by bombing the volcano
d17r TIL that housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard or $75,560, which is $2,000 above tuition, fees, room and board, and other expenses to attend Harvard.
VBZ8p TIL Italy was given back Somalia in 1950, nine years after losing it in WW2.