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TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’

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8aVAG TIL that HTTP error code 451 (unavailable for legal reasons, e.g. censorship) is a reference to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
O5QX TIL that TLC used to be an informative and instructional network focused on providing real education through the medium of television, distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.
9Y8n6 TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.
9VZr TIL a video game based off the TV show ‘The Office" was made. It wasn’t a big success (gameplay video in comments).
9oZQ TIL Louisiana is the prison capital of the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran’s, 13 times China’s, 20 times Germany’s and is the only US state with an annual average murder rate over twice the national average.