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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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VM1dZ TIL that the modern United States of America is considered a 'Hyperpower' having eclipsed the status of a Superpower.
r8X4 TIL Lucy was a chimp who was raised as a human. She was forced back into the wild at the age of 12 when she was more human than ape. A year later, her remains were found with her skin, hands, and feet taken by poachers. It is believe she openly approached them due to her friendliness towards humans.
0wZOA TIL that up until the 1890s Hawaii was a sovereign country and was illegally annexed by the United States
LQjP TIL the largest multi-purpose stadium in the world belongs to North Korea (with a capacity of 150,000), and an execution was staged there in the late 1990s
VMxeQ TIL that the 1963 return of the village of Elten from the Netherlands to West Germany caused a bizarre 'smuggling' operation. Businessmen parked hundreds of trucks full of butter in the town on the night before the handover, dodging German import taxes when the border crossed the goods the next day