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TIL the movie Footloose is based on a real event. Elmore City, Oklahoma banned dancing in 1898 and kept the law until a group of high school students protested during the 1979-1980 school year. The Town Council voted to repeal the law 3-2 and the school students were allowed to hold a prom.

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xVjB TIL the coffee shop manager in the robbery scene at the end of Pulp Fiction is credited as “Coffee Shop” because he is cut off as he speaks: “I am not a hero, I’m just a coffee shop–”
GP6g TIL that more than 20 people died in 1998 after being given synthetic blood in an FDA approved ‘no consent study’. Patients were selected at the accident scene or en route to the hospital to receive the fake blood.
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awbLb Til that there are huge, diverse 'kelp forests' underwater stretching for thousands of miles, found around coastlines on every continent except Antarctica. Darwin said of their ecosystem "I can only compare these great aquatic forests with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions."