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TIL The FCC is considering modifying its policies regarding the use of the f-word and nudity on radio and television.

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1aDaD TIL: "The Momsen Lung" was a device used in World War 2 to escape submarines over 100ft deep. It recycled oxygen in your breath while filtering C02. It was used only once, in 1944, by 9 members of the USS Tang after it torpedoed itself and sank in 180 feet of water
Oon56 TIL in 2006, Judge Garland Ellis Burrell Jr. ordered that items from Ted Kaczynski's cabin be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction." Bomb-making materials, such as diagrams for bombs, were excluded. Raising $232,000 for his victims.
nelk9 TIL that the Chinese population census margin of error (26 million) is bigger than the population of 180 countries
KYgZQ TIL the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic program was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962, at 3:00 pm EDT with Walter Cronkite as one of the main presenters in the multinational broadcast that included the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.
xmBb TIL a man convicted for violating a century-old Michigan law against swearing near women and children challenged it in court and eventually won with the courts striking down the law.