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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

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x6pM5 TIL that Netflix produced a show called "Blockbuster". It was a comedy about the last Blockbuster video store trying to convince the community that they provide something big corporations can’t - human connection. The show was canceled after one season.
VMMnk TIL the extension ladder was invented by 16 year old Henry Quackenbush who later went on to invent the modern nutcracker.
ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)
KOWK6 TIL William Shatner starred in a Horror movie in 1965 in which he spoke entirely in Esperanto
E1vk0 TIL in 1967 the Beatles paid for a full page advert in The Times calling for the legalisation of marijuana