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TIL John Oliver’s comedic commentary has been credited with helping influence US culture by shedding light on issues otherwise ignored. This has been dubbed “The John Oliver effect.

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x65Rw TIL in 2021, legendary brazilian Shaggy's voice actor, Mário Monjardim, died 3 days after Orlando Drummond, also the brazilian Scooby-Doo's voice actor, died too.
4Xlwa TIL that we have prescription drug ads on TV because of one young woman's job interview.
yVWjw TIL about Project Plowshare, a US program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. Proposed uses included widening the Panama Canal, excavate a roadcut in the Mojave Desert for the construction of I-40, and create an artificial harbor in Alaska
kJko4 TIL that in the 1988 presidential primaries, the first Democratic candidate to drop out (September 23, 1987), and the first Republican to decline running after months of speculation(October 22, 1987), would eventually face off in 2020 and 2024.
4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.