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Jul 19, 2020

TIL a reporter once asked Gene Roddenberry why Captain Picard was bald since “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century.” His response? “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”

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Jul 18, 2020

TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening said he was the fan of Beavis and Butthead, because the show largely took "the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization."

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Jul 15, 2020

TIL Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the inspiration for the Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. At the end of the film M orders a cover-up story paralleling Maxwell's real death, “Falling overboard on his yacht."

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Jun 16, 2020

TIL that Bruce Lee tried to create an American TV show in the 70’s but Warner Brothers stole the idea, created “Kung Fu” and cast David Carradine as the lead. 50 yrs later Bruce Lee’s daughter took her fathers idea and created “The Warrior” for Cinemax.

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Jun 09, 2020

TIL Petula Clark caused a stir when she touched the arm of Harry Belafonte during a duet. She refused to destroy the negative and sponsors lost their cool. She and her husband ensured the negatives remained in tact by locking herself in the editing suite and refused to do another take.

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL: Someone hacked into a cable broadcast in Chicago in 1987 wearing a “Max Headroom” mask. Over 30 years later, the hacker still hasn’t been identified.

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May 29, 2020

TIL Larry David made a “no hugging, no learning” rule for the 1990's hit sitcom Seinfeld scripts. He didn't want the characters to have sentimental revelations. It was a show about four friends, none with particularly active goals, bantering in between moments of recognizable awkwardness.

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May 25, 2020

TIL that in Germany, a doctor diagnosed a case of cobalt poisoning because the symptoms matched a case shown in an episode of Dr. House, and that he wrote a book on how to apply Dr. House's diagnosis in real life.

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May 23, 2020

TIL Soap Operas are called "Soap Operas" because they were literally designed to sell Dove Soap to stay-at-home women during WWII

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May 17, 2020

TIL James Randi exposed a fraudulent televangelist named Peter Popoff who was using a ear mic to fool believers into thinking he had God-given healing powers

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May 13, 2020

TIL that Danny DeVito used worked as a hair dresser in his sister's beauty shop for six months when he was just 19. The salon was at a central place in New Jersey and he loved the female attention, though eventually decided he is better off moving to Manhattan and trying to find an acting gig.

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May 02, 2020

TIL that initially the adults of Sesame Street didn’t believe Mr. Snuffleupagus was real, but this was changed to avoid having kids feel that adults wouldn’t believe them when they had something important to say.

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May 01, 2020

TIL Matt Groening named his show The Simpsons because he thought it was funny to have the word simp (short for simpleton) in their name.

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Apr 15, 2020

TIL The BBC were infamous for "wiping" tapes of their shows (fans of Doctor Who know this story very well). But it's even worse then you'd expect. It's estimated 60 to 70 percent of all BBC programming produced between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s was deleted.

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Mar 30, 2020

TIL that the flag in the opening credits of Gilligan's Island is at half-mast because of the Kennedy assassination.

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Feb 03, 2020

TIL Adult Swim cartoon Moral Orel was cancelled for being too dark and depressing. The creator remembers submitting the script for the episode "Alone" and a proposed follow-up episode titled "Rape" and was told the show would end that season.

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Feb 03, 2020

TIL the first ever Super Bowl halftime show didn't feature award winning musicians, but rather two men flying around with jet packs. The spectacle was witnessed by 60,000 in attendance and 50 million watching at home.

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Jan 29, 2020

TIL A young woman caught making explicit videos of herself at a public library had to pay a $250 fine and was banned for a year. She earned $1,500 for the 3 1/2 hour video she live-streamed at the library

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Jan 07, 2020

TIL that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and turned it down because he 'never understood the script', causing him to loose out on 450 million dollars

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL that every sweater Mr Rogers wore on his show had been hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas. She died in 1981. When they started wearing thin in the 1990s, replacements were found, but the source has been forgotten.

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