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TIL the BBC created a Radio Soap Opera during WWII specifically for the American market. It was propaganda designed to get the USA to end its neutrality. One of the aims of the show was to appeal to those with a 'limited mentality'. It ended up being a popular radio show in the US.
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Submitted May 22, 2020 at 09:50PM by TheRyanGillamWriter
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TIL: in the 17th century, a man named Lazarus Colloredo was convicted of murder. Lazuras had a parasitic conjoined twin, and successfully argued his death would kill his twin, an innocent man. He was pardoned
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Submitted May 22, 2020 at 10:03PM by chrisaed
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TIL about Sarah Rector, an impoverished black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She was so wealthy the Oklahoma legislature declared her to be a white person.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 12:03AM by ThatGuy11115555
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TIL that during the filming of Poltergeist (1982), the clown doll nearly really killed Robbie Freeling due to an animatronic error when the clown's arm constricted too tightly around his neck. When the actor started protesting he couldn't breath, Spielberg thought he was improve acting.
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Submitted May 22, 2020 at 11:32PM by 2RoamRome
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TIL of Henry Grimes, a jazz bassist who disappeared in 1970 and was presumed dead. He was found by a social worker in 2002, destitute and with no bass. After people loaned him instruments and money, he made a remarkable comeback, eventually winning a lifetime achievement award in 2016.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 01:47AM by tenor1trpt
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TIL City water supplies in Minneapolis, USA and Warsaw, Poland use a "bio-monitoring system." Consisting of clams and mussels that alert them to pollutants via text message or switches. When the clams close, a spring glued to their head completes a switch and alerts the operators in Warsaw.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 04:44AM by floatjoy
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TIL In 2004, a black bear was found passed out in a Washington State campground after drinking 36 beer cans; when rangers tried to scare it away, it climbed up a tree to take a nap. It was caught the next day after returning for more beer.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 05:26AM by redmambo_no6
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TIL that buttplugs were originally designed as rectal dilators marketed as a cure for insanity and constipation
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 05:05AM by Aggravating_Elephant
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TIL that Medieval Peasants had significantly more days off than Modern Americans with Americans working 244 days a year and Peasants working only 150.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 09:45AM by RobertMurz
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TIL Peanut butter manufacturers fought a 12 year legal battle with the FDA over the minimum peanut content required to be legally labelled as "peanut butter". Anything under 90% peanuts must be labelled "peanut spread".
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 01:29PM by RonnieLeggette
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TIL that Hans Zimmer, who has scored some of the biggest films over the last 30 years, was the keyboard player for The Buggles. He can be seen in the first ever music video shown on M-TV when it launched on August 1, 1981 in the classic 1979 hit “Video Killed the Radio Star”
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 01:39PM by exmoor456
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Today I learned about Joyce Carol Vincent - a young woman who died and lay undiscovered in her flat for 3 years surrounded by undelivered christmas presents she had purchased for friends and family.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 04:22PM by hydromies
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TIL The underwater wreckage of Titanic will disappear by 2030. It's being 'eaten away' by a microorganism "Halomonas titanicae". Also known as the "steel-munching bacteria', they have a special liking towards metals.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 12:05PM by lefttha
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TIL in 2003, Marvel convinced a US court that Mutants aren't human — to save on taxes. X-Men action figures were being imported as humanlike “dolls”. But Marvel wanted the lower tariff for "toys", so they argued Mutants were “nonhuman creatures.” To the chagrin of their own fanbase, they won.
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 06:09PM by howmuchbanana
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TIL Christopher Nolan waited to make Dunkirk until he had earned the trust of a major studio to let him make it as a pure British film, but with an American budget. He said, "Hollywood studios are interested in films about Americans, and there were no Americans involved."
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Submitted May 23, 2020 at 05:51PM by shashankgaur
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