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TIL in 2003 the BBC aired a promotion for it's drama programming featuring a woman falling off a cliff while a couple nearby watch with the tagline "Everyone likes to watch." It was pulled after 3 airings on the same day.

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7peM TIL Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince in the original Grimm Fairy Tales
69ErJ TIL that future general George Patton represented the US in the first modern pentathlon event at the Stockholm Olympics
XEJ4P TIL that all the urinals and toilets aboard the Iowa class battleships used saltwater to conserve valuable fresh water, except for one. The brig toilet used fresh water so that prisoners couldn't make themselves sick by drinking it.
Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed