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In “Black Widower” (season 3, episode 21), Selma marries Sideshow Bob and announces that she has cut back to smoking only after meals and MacGyver. Bart later uses this information to foil Bob’s plot to kill Selma, which revolved around Bob opening a gas valve in their hotel room while Selma watched MacGyver.

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In “Bart of Darkness” (season 6, episode 1), Bart suspects that Ned Flanders killed his wife Maude, including when Bart overhears Ned tell Rod and Todd that “Mommy… had to go away. She’s with God now.”

It later turns out that Maude was actually at a Bible retreat, but Ned had a guilty conscience because he accidentally killed Maude’s favorite plant while she was away.

A few seasons later, in “Alone Again, Natura-Diddily” (season 11, episode 14), Maude actually died—and presumably went to God—after being hit by a barrage of t-shirts cannons at Springfield Speedway.

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New York included supposedly anonymized medallion numbers when they first released taxi data, but someone de-anonymized the data, so the TLC stopped included medallion info in the dataset.

More recently, the TLC held a hackathon designed to test a new anonymization method, and so it’s possible that future versions of the NYC taxi dataset will have medallion info again.

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The groom is also the source of the best NYT soundbite of all time, from 2010:

Type-A-Plus Students Chafe at Grade Deflation

“The nightmare scenario, if you will, is that you apply with a 3.5 from Princeton and someone just as smart as you applies with a 3.8 from Yale,” said Daniel E. Rauch, a senior from Millburn, N.J.

h/t @BergmanSenior

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Unfortunately Vox didn’t feel comfortable putting the actual best NYT wedding photo on the page, but here it is:

And with some of the face detection landmarks:

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