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TIL that most East Germans could receive TV broadcasts from the West, so the authorities came up with a show called "The Black Channel" to explain what these broadcasts "really" meant.

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J1nOV TIL A missing pet tortoise was found in the attic 30 years later, alive and well
JYbQ TIL Peter Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos. [Fixed]
J1YAV TIL that Chuck E Cheese was created by the Co-Founder of Atari Video Games as a way to open up arcade games to younger children.
VxVD TIL Brooke Shields was a full frontal nude model for the Playboy publication “Sugar and Spice” at 10 years of age.
8ymb TIL there is a Canadian cartel which controls roughly 70% of the world’s maple syrup production. It allocates production, sets prices, and maintains a strategic reserve of 40 million pounds of syrup to protect against market fluctuations.