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TIL Jamie Brewer from American Horror Story persuaded Texas senators to abolish the word “retarded” from state legislation.

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OoYLL TIL when ‘The Shining’ premiered, the MPAA wouldn’t allow blood to appear in any trailer “approved for all audiences,” but Stanley Kubrick managed to get a trailer comprised solely of the elevator scene passed by convincing the board the tsunami of blood was rusty water.
b6ed7 TILL of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. A genus of bacteria that hunts other bacteria
J1dKB TIL that humans have been wearing clothes for at least 40,000 years. We know this because human body lice can’t survive outside of clothes, and genetic evidence shows that they diverged from head lice 40,000-170,000 years ago.
xV5bB TIL Blazing Saddles was the first movie to have a fart scene
KOAM9 TIL that in 1968, four submarines sank mysteriously. An Israeli sub disappeared in January - four days later, a French sub went missing and was never seen again. In March a Soviet sub exploded and sank, and in May a US sub also exploded and sank - both causes remain officially unknown.