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TIL: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority officially recognizes port 666 as the port for the First Person Shooter: Doom

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VBR1Z TIL that in the twenties, the Weimar Republic tried to cancel the nazis in Germany. They shut down more than 99 nazi newspapers, and even Hitler was banned from speaking in several german states from 1925-27.
7r8Br TIL China was the first country in the world to produce steel preceding Europe by over 1000 years but failed to reach an industrial revolution due to the absence of a middle class
D1M1e TIL that German folk singer Sibylle Baier recorded her album Colour Green during 1970-73 but wasn't released until 2006, over 30 years later, when her son found the tapes.
R5W6 TIL that there is a Velcro alternative that is 8x stronger than Velcro
R66l TIL Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman’s divorce from her husband in 1950 (to marry her lover Italian director Roberto Rossellini) was so scandalous a US Senator proposed a bill that would require films to be rated not just for on screen content, but the moral character of the actors involved as well.