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TIL the broken bottle scam originated in the Qing Dynasty and was originally used with fake porcelain

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VBVM8 TIL American composer Kevin MacLeod allows anyone to use his music for free, as long as he receives credit for the song. This has led to his music being used in thousands of films, millions of videos on YouTube.
jNw0p TIL that in the 50's and 60's, a single Florida town known as "nub city" was responsible for 2/3rds of America's dismemberment insurance claims. No one was ever convicted of insurance fraud, because juries had a hard time believing even Floridians would be insane enough to cut off their own hands.
94AG TIL there are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the United States
V8RD TIL In 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2 separate occasions it was discovered that women had been buried alive, after people at the cemetery heard screams coming from inside the earth.
rR8nx TIL Ed Sullivan went against pressure to not have African American entertainers on his show, and to not interact with them when they appeared. He presented groundbreaking performances by people like Bo Diddley, and presented obscure, less mainstream Black acts he knew from spending time in Harlem.