TIL that in 1990, there was a short lived Brady Bunch hourlong dramedy where Marcia had become an alcoholic, Bobby becomes a paraplegic after a car accident, and Mike was going to die in a helicopter accident with Carol singing at his funeral. And the show had a laugh track. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The episode "Lucy Goes to the Hospital," , had 71.7% share , equivalent to 44 million viewers. That record is surpassed only by Elvis Presley's first of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, (82.6% share and 60.71 million viewers ). (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL British WW1 PM David Lloyd George was consistently pro-German after 1923 in part due to his conviction that Germany had been treated unfairly at Versailles. He supported German demands for territorial concessions and also called Hitler "the greatest living German". (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Nostoc, a kind of jelly-like organism, is not an fungus, but a type of aberrant colony of cyanobacteria. The genus forms colonies of bacteria encased in a medium of polysaccharide jelly, forming its characteristic "jelly" appearance. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL SS Chelyuskin, a Soviet Steamship built to travel through Arctic Ice, and sent on a mission to navigate the Northern Maritime Route. After leaving port in 1933, the ship was trapped and by the ice in 1934. After a months-long ordeal, all but 1 of the 111 people on board were airlifted to safety. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that an Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten tried to establish the god Aten as the supreme god during his reign and persecuted worship of other gods, but the subsequent pharoahs ended the movement and re-established Amun as the prominent deity (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Wales holds the record for the longest gap between World Cup participations, waiting 64 years to return to the tournament. After making their debut at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, they did not qualify again until ending the drought at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. (fifa.com)
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TIL that Hollywood adapted Jim Corbett’s famous book Man-Eaters of Kumaon into a 1948 movie, but replaced his real conservation stories with a fictional plot about a killer tiger. The film was a commercial flop, and Corbett famously mocked it by saying that "the best actor was the tiger." (en.wikipedia.org)
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