LQPEd TIL American Actress Dovie Beams recorded her sexual encounters with then Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos and got played to public radio
b6xn0 TIL The Roman Emperor Elagabalus took power when he was 14. He would often prostitute himself, and offered vast sums of money to any doctor who could give him a vagina.
QNBLX TIL I learned of Emperor Glycerius, who was a western roman emperor who became bishop of Salona in what is now Croatia after he was deposed of his Imperial office.
AN5p7 TIL in 2011, the sloppy joe brand "Manwich" pulled a series of controversial TV commercials off the air featuring men talking excitedly about women's interests like hair, shoes, or musicals who were then slapped in the face by a phantom hand and told, "It's called a Manwich."
yVayv TIL weather forecasts are good at predicting temperatures but bad at predicting rain
m1e4O TIL that in 2019, Liverpool FC tried to trademark the word ‘Liverpool’, but the bid was rejected due to the “geographical significance” of the city
DQWpp TIL "Bagdad Bob", Information Minister under Saddam Hussein was known for his greatly inaccurate TV announcements. He reported that American troops and tanks had not entered Bagdad while they were heard fighting only a few hundred meters from the studio.
vPkVj TIL that Buzz Aldrin was the first person to perform a religious ceremony on the Moon, taking communion and also becoming the first person to consume food and liquid on the Moon. At the time, NASA was dealing with a lawsuit from atheist activist Madalyn O'Hair, so Aldrin opted not to broadcast it.
J1Vdj TIL a 2002 U.S. war game, with Iran as the enemy, ended with the entire U.S. fleet lost in 1 day. The game was then restarted with rigged rules to ensure America won.
pYlW4 TIL Wang is the most common surname in the world
16EAW TIL Canadian TV network CTV doesn't have official full name because CBC, Canadian public broadcaster, claimed it have exclusive rights to the term 'Canada'.
GA6Q7 TIL in 1933 a family in Georgia recorded a song they had passed down for generations without knowing what language it was in. Later, it was found the song was fron the Mende language of the Sierra Leone, preserved for nearly 200 years from the time their enslaved ancestors were brought to America.