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TIL that the FDA has a document based around cloning animals

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VBVvZ TIL that I Love Lucy (American TV show) was the first television show to be rebroadcast…. The 1st Rerun
P1NBE TIL the first take of the London Symphony Orchestra recording John Williams's "Superman" theme was ruined by director Richard Donner running out of the control room and onto the studio floor screaming, "Bravo! Genius!" because he "heard" the theme "saying Superman's name": "SU-PER-MAAAAAN".
8aeMX TIL Pinball was banned beginning in the early 1940s until 1976 in New York City. New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia was responsible for the ban, believing that it robbed school children of their hard earned nickels and dimes.
M7Era TIL Germany was once a utopia for transgender people
P1AKg TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. Claire Howell said she put the autographs in a cupboard as she was worried they would fade.