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TIL Are You Afraid of the Dark? was nominated for a NAACP award because it featured such a diverse cast. Nickelodeon turned away kids for the show that were "too Disney." Creator D.J. MacHale described "too Disney" as "apple pie, freckles, cute, over-the-top acting."

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v1O58 TIL about Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish ski commando who in 1944 escaped from pursuing Russians by taking 30 pills of Pervitin. He skied for 400 kilometers in -20C temperatures with no food and ammunition, got injured by a landmine, and had a pulse rate of 200 beats per minute by the time he was found.
dD9JB TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
4WD5 TIL the highest fee for crossing the Panama Canal was $375,600, while the lowest fee was 36 cents by someone who swam through it
gl77 TIL when, “The Founding of a Party”, a Chinese movie depicting the formation of the communist party was released, Transformers and Harry Potter were delayed to July, workers and students were given days off, and tickets were made free by local theatres so everyone had the chance to see it.
671l TIL wind chill calculations assume that your exposed face is roughly five feet off the ground, it’s night, and you’re walking directly into the wind in an open field at a clip of about 3 mph.