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TIL Jimmy Kimmel Live! Has not recorded live since 2004 because censors were unable to properly bleep a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane

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b6oL0 TIL The Salvation Army was originally opposed by and fought with The Skeleton Army which was composed of lower and working class citizens, punks and miscreants who objected to the SA's views on abstinence and temperence.
O7D7 TIL one of Nintendo’s early business ventures was setting up “love hotel” chains, a short stay themed hotel, built for couples to engage in sexual activity privately.
EK7V TIL a man faked his death, lived next door without his kids knowing, fled to Panama with his wife on a fake passport, tried to build a hotel using his insurance money, after a visa policy change he returned home and pretended not to remember anything; his ruse was revealed by a Google search
M46b TIL: In 2001 the DEA (drug enforcement agency) tried to ban glow sticks and pacifiers because they considered them “drug paraphernalia”
v1X0B TIL of the Jim Twins, two identical twins who were separated at birth and lived nearly identical lives. They married and divorced different women with the same names, had dogs with the same names, smoked the same type of cigarettes, drove the same type of car, and vacationed at the same beach.