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TIL actor Kurt Russell played 3 plus seasons in minor league baseball and hit .292

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N74v8 TIL Marketing to children, such as commercials and toys based off kids shows, was illegal in the United States until Ronald Reagan took office. He changed that law, which started the “Dark Ages of Animation.” This lasted until 1991, when Nickelodeon changed to focus on animators and storytelling
4rZo TIL the Voltaire quote co-opted by the far-right movement, “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” is actually a false quote attributed to Voltaire, and was likely first used by White Supremacist Kevin Strom in 1993, 215 years after Voltaire’s death.
DYJr TIL that Saddam Hussein, while held captive by US forces, was repeatedly forced to watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut”, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan
yQJjl TIL about Bostrom's trilemma. If humans don't kill themselves off and reach the point of being able to simulate human brains, and don't develop universally believed ethics not to, then, statistically speaking, there is a higher chance you are a computer simulation than not.
JRlv TIL the World Wide Web is 7777 days old today.