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TIL Police Squad, a critically acclaimed TV show was cancelled after just 6 episodes because “the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it.”

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Xl5j TIL Scientist John All fell into a 70-foot deep crevasse in Nepal. He broke 15 bones and was bleeding internally but miraculously survived and was able to document his climb out.
Y7RVx TIL: In the Zhou dynasty, the waist chop involved slicing the victim into two or more pieces and was famously used on poet Gao Qi who was sliced into 8 pieces due to his political satire. Today the term "waist chop" is used as a metaphor for the cancelation of ongoing projects, primarily TV shows.
QWGk TIL that in addition to 6 million Jews, about an equal number of Christians, Catholics and Homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
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