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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
May 25, 2020
TIL Only five babies were born in the London subway station. One of them is talk show host, Jerry Springer.
babies
births
born
highgate
how many
jerry springer
london
tube
underground
todayilearned
Mar 11, 2020
TIL the day after John Lennon was murdered, Mark D. Chapman was supposed to attend a David Bowie concert, as Bowie was his next target. Lennon and Yoko Ono were supposed to go to the show too, so when the show started, there were three empty seats in front row. The ones for Lennon, Ono and Chapman
alien overtones
australia
chameleon performer
creative period
david bowie
essential reading
fictional rock singer
front row
front-row ticket
interminable solos
john lennon
liver cancer
london
mark chapman
new south wales
new york
nick hopton
rare pictures
rock concert
rock performers
roger griffin
stage door
stage production
sydney
united kingdom
united states of america
todayilearned
Jan 22, 2020
TIL a 34-yr-old French-UK woman named Emma Perrier was catfished by a 53-yr-old UK man who was using a 35-yr-old Turkish model's photos. She tracked down the real model, Adem Guzel, they hit it off via FaceTime; about a year later, he flew to London and they became a couple.
adem
adem guzel
alan
alan stanley
alan’s scam
arabian catfishing story
black-and-white modeling photograph
brilliant emma
charming ronnie
dangersome male model
diamond engagement ring
difference—but emma
emma
emma facetimed
emma perrier
emma’s affections
emma’s heartache
emma’s message
emma’s profile
emma’s relationship
favorite photograph
free messaging app
french alps
high-energy barbell class
italian chain restaurant
italian named ronaldo
leafy suburb southwest
leather jacket
london
long time
nearby london hilton
new assistant manager
online pen pals
opposite sex
perrier mineral water
profile pictures
random male model
real name alan
reality-check relationships online
red heart emojis
ronnie
ronnie’s message
shop fitter—a decorator
sixth-biggest french city
small talk
spanish waiter
text message
turkish model
united kingdom
west midlands
todayilearned
Nov 10, 2019
TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.
abba
adolf hitler
anne frank
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blood
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ecuador
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elvis presley
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humans tv series
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jonny may
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kent
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liechtenstein
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mac
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men editor's choice
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mexico
michael jackson
michael phelps
moles
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nature
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new caledonia
new york city
new zealand
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paris
philip may
platinum
pluto
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pride
prince philip
princess anne
prisons
radiohead
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roald dahl
roger federer
russia
saturn
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scotland
seals
shares
silver
skin
spain
st lucia
stegosaurus
swindon
take that
thailand
us navy
usa
uzbekistan
victorians
wales
weather
wikipedia
william shakespeare
wonder woman
york
todayilearned
Nov 02, 2019
TIL that the Polish Government in Exile, formed after the Nazi and Soviet invasion in 1939, refused to recognize the Polish People's Republic until fair elections were held. They continued to have a president, PM, and a cabinet that met every week in London until 1990 when democracy was restored
august zaleski
britain
diplomacy
emigracja
england
exile
government (quotation subject)
government in exile
historia
history (tv genre)
institutions
international
jan paweł ii
london
poland
polish
politics (tv genre)
polityka
polska
polski
pope john paul ii (religious leader)
public office
rada trzech
republic (form of government)
republic in exile
rzeczpospolita londyńska
rząd
stanisław ostrowski
uk
władysław anders (military commander)
todayilearned
Oct 18, 2019
TIL A passenger was turned away from two flights because he was wearing 10 layers of clothing to avoid extra luggage fees
airline
airplane
baggage fees
british airways
crime
culture
documentary
drugs
entertainment
film
iceland
journalism
lgbtq
london
news
politics
sex
the vice guide to right now
travel
tv
vgtrn
video
todayilearned
Oct 18, 2019
TIL that Banksy once sold originals of his artwork for $60 each from a street stall in NYC. Not knowing the truth, the public largely ignored the art. Only a few people bought them, and they’re now worth a fortune.
aa milne
art
banksy
london
new york
uk news
us news
world news
todayilearned
Sep 28, 2019
TIL the philosopher Hegel believed that every era of history has wisdom to offer - history is not primitive. The present is not necessarily 'more advanced', but also contains blind spots that history can give answers to.
alain de botton
big questions
curriculum
deutsch
dialetic
education
elements of the philosophy of right
georg wilhelm friedrich hegel (academic)
german idealism
german philosophy
hegel
improvement
interest
kant
lecture
life
london
love
mood
phenomenology of spirit
philosophy
relationships
school
science of logic
secular
self
sermon
sol
talk
the school of life
think
thought
tsol
wisdom
wonder
todayilearned
May 28, 2019
TIL as of 2016 the City of New York is owed $16 Million in parking tickets unpaid by diplomats
canberra
cities
london
new york
road safety
uk news
us news
world news
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