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TIL about the "Kentucky Meat Shower," an incident in 1876 wherein chunks of meat fell from the sky, sparking lots of wild theories about how it happened. To this day, there's no 100% certain explanation

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R66l TIL Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman’s divorce from her husband in 1950 (to marry her lover Italian director Roberto Rossellini) was so scandalous a US Senator proposed a bill that would require films to be rated not just for on screen content, but the moral character of the actors involved as well.
N7eZ6 TIL that there is a massively popular children's TV character in Germany called Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread) who is a depressed loaf of bread whose catchphrases include "I would like to be left alone" and "My life is hell".
neoRB TIL, that few days after Chernobyl disaster, all children in Poland were given Lugol's iodine. This was one of the few cases, when Polish communist government, despite official denials of the Soviet side and against their recommendations, took action in the best interest of their own citizens.
mpdR TIL that Sean Schemmel, the voice actor of Goku in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, didn’t realize he was voicing the lead character until several episodes into production.
OGEXR TIL about "Cemetery Island" (old Newburg Cemetery) in Kentucky Lake, a strip of land that's only visible when the water is low. It has a grave marker from 1907 that's regularly toppled by boats when the water is high in the summer and has to be propped back up in the winter.