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‘Making a Murderer’ and 12 More TV Shows That Have Saved Real Lives

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Netflix’s true-crime series Making a Murderer helped get Brandon Dassey’s conviction overturned. From House to Spongebob Squarepants, here are 12 more shows that have saved real-world lives.

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Romance-killing true love franchises and nine seasons of Big Bang Theory aside, television can be genunely life-changing. It’s full of tempting life hacks, from sleeping with the POTUS, who is your boss (like in Scandal), to sleeping with a doctor, who is your boss (Grey's Anatomy), to shooting your boss...

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