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todayilearned
Jun 21, 2020
TIL Fran Drescher’s stalker changed how sitcoms were made. To stop him from sneaking into the studio audience of The Nanny, they began to cast the audience from extras. Good/loud laughers were picked in casting, making the show feel funnier to home audiences. This became an industry standard.
america
audience interaction
australia
australia and new zealand
brash fashion
british boarding-school girl
california
casting call
cbs corporation
charles shaughnessy
clean police record
comfortable chair
established casting agency
europe
female friend
fran drescher
france
gender split
hollywood
home run
jeff sagansky
julie elizabeth andrews
laugh tracks
life advice
life experiences
london
nathan jolly
new south wales
north america
northern america
northern europe
oceania
over-the-phone auditions
paris
peter marc jacobsen
professional laugher
ratings smash
reality programming
shopping trip
side dish
single-camera comedies
sitcom pitch
sitcom stalker
st clair
stalker ordeal
studio audience
teenage daughter
united kingdom
united states of america
way sitcoms
western europe
todayilearned
Jun 11, 2020
TIL In 1964, Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic Gold Medal into the Ohio River as an Act of Protest against Racism.
1960
america
civil rights
gold medal
investigation
kentucky
legend
louisville
muhammad ali
ohio river
olympics
segregation
sports
todayilearned
May 20, 2020
TIL In-N-Out burgers operates occasional pop-up restaurants in Australia for the sole purpose of protecting their tradmark there.
america
american chain
arnold schwarzenegger
australia
australia and new zealand
australian restaurants
burger chain
burger restaurants
california
california-based burger giant
customers lining
fast food chain
federal court
getty images inc.
in n out burger
inner west
lunch break
melbourne
nevada
new south wales
north america
northern america
oceania
oregon
patrick t fallon
pop-up restaurants
real reason
reason burger chain
rohan smith
sneaky reason burger
stephen savoia
surry hills
sydney
trademark law provisions
united states of america
utah
victoria
todayilearned
Feb 11, 2020
TIL Apple was fined $9 million in Australia because it misled hundreds of Australian customers by ‘bricking’ their iPhones in a software update and then denying them repairs. The customers were informed they were no longer entitled to a repair because they had used a third party to fix their devices
agence france presse
america
apple shows
australian court case
australian customers
bricked devices
californian judge finding
consumer commission
consumer guarantees
consumer watchdog
federal court
getty images inc.
improve staff training
iphone deception
jennifer dudley-nicholson
judge finding prosecutors
multinational company
national technology editor
north america
northern america
phone support staff
reality tech
sarah court
scott olson
security checks
software update
tech drama
tech giant
technology giant
third-party repairs
timothy d. cook
united states of america
voiding warranties
warranty information
warranty rights
warranty systems
todayilearned
Feb 08, 2020
TIL that in the 2018 Hawaii false missle alert, PornHub offered an unusual sociological report. After the alert was sent, traffic on PornHub dropped 77%. Nearly an hour after people were informed of a false alarm, PornHub traffic jumped to 48% more than normal from people relieving themselves.
america
asia
australia
australia and new zealand
ballistic missile
ballistic missile threat
ballistic missile warning
canada
eastern asia
eighth-biggest porn consumer
europe
france
germany
hawaii
hawaii missile
india
initial warning
japan
matthew dunn
missile crisis
north america
northern america
northern europe
oceania
porn habits
porn searches
porn sites
porn traffic
southern asia
strange reason
united kingdom
united states of america
western europe
todayilearned
Jan 23, 2020
TIL that Adam West and Frank Gorshin were once kicked out of an orgy because they stayed in their Batman characters during the orgy.
adam west
america
california
entertainment news
family guy
fans joy
frank gorshin
gilbert gottfried
hilarious orgy story
hilarious reason
hollywood
kayla cobb
north america
northern america
orgy story
sex party
united states of america
todayilearned
Jan 09, 2020
TIL that during prohibition, the US government intentionally added lethal poison to industrial alcohols, knowing they were used by bootleggers and sold to the public. This federal poisoning program led to over 10,000 deaths.
18th amendment
al capone
america
ban
blindness
bootleg
charles norris
chemical war
constitution
daniel okrent
deborah blum
dementia
detroit free press
distillery
enforcement
europe
facts
free videos
gangsters
industrial alcohol
last call: the rise and fall of prohibition
malcolm bingay
medical examiner
methyl alcohol
movement
new york
poison
prohibition
scandal
smithsonian
speakeasy
temperance
the poisoner's handbook
theresa mcculla
us
volstead act
todayilearned
Dec 15, 2019
TIL 25 years after its release, Mariah Carey still earns around $3,300,000 a year in royalties alone for her song "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
america
arena tour
australia
australia and new zealand
australian fans
chart rules
europe
extravagent lifestyle
festive pop song
festive season
mariah carey
north america
northern america
northern europe
oceania
tour dates
united kingdom
united states of america
upgrading venues
walter afanasieff
todayilearned
Aug 13, 2019
TIL despite having over a billion views, Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" doesn't run any ads on YouTube at the singer's request. When asked why, he explained he just wants to keep the song out of the "hey buy this stuff" world.
america
anna webber
australia
australia and new zealand
cameron adams
chris kidd
dj mark ronson
enrique iglesias
europe
french proto-synthesiser
iggy azalea
jean-jacques perrey
justin bieber
katy perry
korean pop star
launceston
luis fonsi
most-viewed music video
music video
musical hero
natasha pincus
national music writer
new york
north america
northern america
northern europe
oceania
tasmania
taylor swift
united kingdom
united states of america
wally de backer
todayilearned
Apr 12, 2019
TIL Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash in 1967 aged 34. Her car hit a tractor, killing her instantly. After her death, the NHTSA recommended requiring an underride guard on all tractor-trailers. In America the underride guard is sometimes known as a "Mansfield bar".
acting lessons
america
australia
australia and new zealand
biloxi
blonde bombshell
bryn mawr
california
city council vehicle
college student
dallas
dance lessons
film career
film director
film roles
gus stevens supper club
heart attack
highway bringing
history editor
hollywood
jayne mansfield
lawyer father
louisiana
marilyn monroe
mariska hargitay
matt cimber
mississippi
movie star
new orleans
north america
northern america
oceania
peeled back roof
pennsylvania
publicity stunts
rear underrun protector
road safety
ron harrison
samuel s. brody
school teacher
sophia loren
stage productions
texas
truck safety feature
united states of america
vehicle actor
vera jayne palmer
wardrobe malfunctions
won beauty contests
todayilearned
Apr 07, 2019
TIL that, not only the Normandy scene in Saving Private Ryan cost $11m to shoot, but also most of the soldiers seen were actually members of the Irish Defence Forces.
america
county wexford (administrative division)
irish air corps
irish army reserve
irish defence forces
irish naval service reserve
normandy landings (military conflict)
saving private ryan (award-winning work)
scene
steven spielberg (film director)
the curragh
tom hanks (celebrity)
u.s army
united nations
war film (film genre)
world war i (military conflict)
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