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TIL in 2007 the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force attempted the advertise their upcoming movie by planting Lite Brite devices of one of the shows characters all around Boston. The entire city or Boston went on lockdown thinking the devices were bombs in an attempted terror attack

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9YKwr TIL that the character of Abed Nadir from Community is one of the few pop culture characters seen as a reasonably accurate representation of Autism, and is especially important because he rarely falls into the Pinocchio Syndrome (I just want to be a real boy!) trope so common in movies and tv.
9VGG TIL Martin Luther King Jr’s mother was assassinated by a gunman while she was playing the organ in church.
kJwmW TIL : The Blue Angels do not wear G-suits despite performing high-G manoeuvres as it would hinder their ability to execute their delicate choreography in the sky
VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.
ZJbB TIL that while chimpanzees can be violent, mankind’s closest relative –the bonobo– has never once been observed killing another member of the same species.