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TIL in the late 1970s, networks, magazines, and religious groups voiced outrage about a new ABC show, condemning it for sexuality, violence and perversion. That show was the sitcom "Soap".

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OlBY TIL according to a poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the 20th century was instant noodles.
px4b TIL Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined
OoYoL TIL that some guy attempted to beat a world record by playing QBert for 100 hours straight on a single coin... His attempt failed because a thunderstorm shorted out the game after 56.5 hours of continuous game play!
dbvZ TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.