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TIL In the Welsh village Aberystwyth, Monty Python's Life of Brian was completely banned until 2008. It was un-banned by the new mayor - Sue Jones-Davies, who also played Brian's girlfriend in the film
http://bit.ly/2GwgLzu

Submitted April 19, 2019 at 07:33PM by Dovahkiwi
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TIL that Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered while investigating Jonestown in 1978, had a record of directly looking into his constituents' concerns. As an assemblyman, he investigated the conditions of California prisons in 1970 by using a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate.
http://bit.ly/1nNIEOU

Submitted April 19, 2019 at 11:51PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
http://bit.ly/2qYLLwK

Submitted April 19, 2019 at 09:57PM by crashdaddy
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TIL of Israel's Law of Return. It dictates that any Jewish person, no matter their country of origin, what language they speak, or how much money they have, can be granted Israeli citizenship they day they arrive in Israel.
http://bit.ly/1fkjJUk

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 12:12AM by its_okay_tommy
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TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.
http://bit.ly/2DnYnqh

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 01:25AM by reason_found_decoy
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TIL that while scientists were analyzing prehistoric worms recovered from permafrost, two 40,000 year old nematodes 'revived' and began moving and eating, making them the oldest multi-cellular life alive on Earth.
http://bit.ly/2PheMSa

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 03:40AM by Family_Murderer
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TiL Reuters found 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s
https://reut.rs/2Po6Qig

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 05:38AM by simplelifestyle
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TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
http://bit.ly/1ILiSfW

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 07:22AM by bumfluff69420
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TIL a Brazilian electronics company is legally allowed to call their phone 'iPhone' because they trademarked the word in 2000, 7 years prior to Apple's iPhone. The phone runs on Android.
http://bit.ly/2PjRCdX

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 10:48AM by nokia621
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TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven
http://bit.ly/2VXbHcr

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 04:55AM by iacs12
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TIL that Louis Armstrong was a heavy marijuana smoker for much of his life and spent 9 days in jail in 1930 after being arrested for drug possession outside a club. He described marijuana as "a thousand times better than whiskey".
http://bit.ly/2PjMu9Q

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 01:47PM by EnoughPM2020
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TIL Steve Carell used to be a mailman and during Christmas, he would write notes to kids who would send letters to Santa and put it in their mailboxes. The note read, "Your letter to Santa has been picked up by special reindeer courier."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmnSlDfM6RU

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 02:49PM by bingingwithbaggins
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TIL that a production of The Nutcracker can generate 40 - 45% of annual revenue for major American ballet companies.
http://bit.ly/2GyxP7T

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 04:09PM by Ell2509
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TIL about RadiThor, an energy drink sold in the 1920s, claimed it provided energy and cured a host of ailments, including impotence. It was simply radium dissolved in water, slowly killing its customers.
http://bit.ly/2eBsZX1

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 06:50PM by pincer420
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TIL of Malchik, a stray dog that made a Moscow train station his home, acting as the resident guard dog. In 2001, a woman fatally wounded Malchik, stabbing him multiple times with a kitchen knife. The woman was arrested and tried. A statue, named "Compassion", was erected in honour of Malchik.
http://bit.ly/2gkXu4W

Submitted April 20, 2019 at 05:52PM by IlIlllIIIlllllI
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