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TIL in 1927, actress Mae West spent 10 days in jail because of the explicit nature of her stage play "Sex".

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6ElNl TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China
nWjWr TIL in 1959 residents of Cortez, Colorado observed a UFO landing which became a local legend. Declassified files from the US military 50 years later revealed the real incident was an emergency landing of a top secret U-2 spy plane
ADQVl TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) never intended the apples he planted to be eaten whole. He intended for them to be made into hard apple cider.
kJep5 TIL that Linoleum is considered to be the first genericized trademark, having lost the ability to obtain trademark protection in the late 1800s — just 14 years after its introduction.
kO1R5 TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, where dumb people tend to over-estimate their own intelligence, when in fact they’re not even competent enough to recognize their own ineptitude.