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TIL Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word 'nimrod' into an insult because the audience failed to get a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter

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MePWa TIL Radio Caledonia was a Nazi run WW2 propaganda station that aired in Scotland 1940-1942. Broadcast from Germany, Goebbels hoped it would turn listening Scots against the English. The message that Scotland would be vastly preferable to "an England run by a war-mongering Churchill" didn't fly,
a89xb TIL author Harper Lee once said she regretted writing “To Kill a Mockingbird”, stating to writer Marja Mills, “I wish I’d never written the damn thing.” When Mills subsequently asked her again a few years later, Lee still seemed to express doubts. “Sometimes,” Lee replied. “But then it passes.”
Ba7W TIL that the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen,” which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war.
l7vm5 TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
pNXA TIL that sexual repression in Saudi Arabia have caused people, men and women alike, to turn to homosexuality. While it is punishable by death, they feel safe as the religious police never suspect them.