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TIL That eggs should be stored “pointy” side down

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PYEBg TIL that none of the actors in the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast from 1938 intended for the citizens of America to take it as seriously as they did, considering that many of the scripts were improvised and most of the sound effects came from houseware items
pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.
WkRpX TIL: Alexander the Great never lost a battle
Bv9D TIL that up until 1977 child porn was legal. Before then you could find them on shelves right next to other erotica. It seems so little known.
P14dG TIL there's a bridge in Australia called Montague Street Bridge that's 3-metre high and has 26 warning signs, yet trucks keep hitting it a lot to the point that it becomes famous because of it.