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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
Feb 16, 2020
TIL that Alan Turing once bought 150lbs of silver, but didn't trust banks so he buried it in the woods instead. After the price of silver had almost doubled, he went to dig it up, but could no longer find it.
alan turing
andrew hodges
britain
commentaries
corporate events
david champernowne
debt / fixed income markets
english
equities markets
europe
government borrowing requirement
james saft
markets
national government debt
personal investing
saft
silver
united kingdom
us
western europe
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 21, 2020
TIL that just 10 percent of world military spending would probably be sufficient to end poverty and hunger
afghanistan
africa
aid relief / humanitarian agencies
algeria
americas
asia / pacific
azerbaijan
china (prc)
civil unrest
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energy (legacy)
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europe
freeman
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government / politics
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iraq
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russia
sam perlo
saudi arabia
south america / central america
sweden
united kingdom
united nations
united states
us
vietnam
western europe
todayilearned
Oct 21, 2019
TIL a long-lost Rembrandt painting was found in a basement in New Jersey. It was initially valued by a local auction house at $800, who were unaware of its true value. But numerous art buffs recognised its true value, resulting in it selling for $870,000 ($1.1 million with the sale premium).
art
arts / culture / entertainment
california
europe
human interest / brights / odd news
jersey
john nye
leisure products (trbc)
netherlands
new
new jersey
rembrandt
thomas kaplan
united states
us
video
western europe
todayilearned
Jun 19, 2019
TIL For the first time in 950 years, the Bayeux Tapestry will leave France and go on display in Britain. It will take several years for the tapestry to be made ready to be moved.
art
arts / culture / entertainment
britain
diplomacy / foreign policy
england
europe
france
general news
government / politics
government borrowing requirement
living / lifestyle
major news
society / social issues
tapestry
united kingdom
us
western europe
todayilearned
Jun 15, 2019
TIL that nearly 100 people in Germany die annually while masturbating, and that forensic examiners estimate one to two people per million are killed each year globally.
accidental autoerotic fatalities
active heater
australia
australia and new zealand
crimeofficial numbers
emergency services
europe
farewell letter
forensic physician
german newspaper
hamburg
harald voss
highest court rules
institute of legal medicine
italy
oceania
official numbers
oxygen deprivation
people masturbating
plastic bags
pornographic material
risks leading
risky masturbation practices
sex doll
sexy time
show masturbation
southern europe
staff writers
suicide note
telltale signs
tree lights
unreported cases
victoria
victoria police
western europe
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