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TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.

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wLQ1P TIL that the peak of TV attention can be assigned an exact date: Sunday, September 9, 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first appearance on television, on CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show. Its 82.6 percent share of US viewers has never been equaled or bettered.
wLZNJ TIL: Poisoned halloween candy is almost entirely a myth. Aside from a 1950s case of laxative laced candy, it's never actually happened.
nWl5W TIL trash bags were only invented in 1950, so there are plenty of people alive who predate them, and who may have grown up without them.
KOO6w TIL a hypothetical structure called a Matrioshka Brain could have enough computational power to simulate an entire alternate universe.
xVXLD TIL Huntington Beach Police Department recently released more than 100 photos of possible victims of Serial Killer Rodney Alcala. He took the photos himself, and they want help identifying possible victims. See if you recognize anyone.