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TIL Under the Soviet Union, the distribution of Beatles albums was forbidden by the government, so some medical students would burn Beatles songs onto old X-rays.

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XPkE TIL according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
MK6m TIL that Victor Salva, director of Jeepers Creepers and Powder, sexually abused (which he recorded) the 12 year old lead of his 1989 film Clownhouse. He served only 15 months in prison. The victim never acted again.
kJJwB TIL Spongebob was supposed to be a kid in school but Stephen Hillenburg wanted him to be an adult. To compromise, Hillenburg created Mrs. Puff so Spongebob would be an adult in school.
e0dXb TIL Thanks to a Swedish tax law regarding costumes, ABBA’s stage clothes were outlandishly-designed on purpose. As long as they were impractical for everyday wear, the group’s outfits were tax-deductible.
J1gBQ TIL That in Marshalltown, Iowa, it is illegal for a horse to eat a fire hydrant. Why was this law made?