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TIL Americans pronounce Bologna as Baloney

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Lkoyv TIL that the city of Liverpool in the UK has successfully boycotted News Corp's "The Sun" newspaper for 30 years after proven false and sensationalised reporting of the city's Hillsborough stadium disaster.
MeM7K TiL before "A Hard Day's Night" was released in America, a United Artists executive requested to dub the voices of the Beatles with mid-Atlantic accents. McCartney angrily replied, "Look, if we can understand a fucking cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool."
obj8 TIL popular WWE stars Brock Lesnar and wife Rena Greek AKA Sable reside on a small rural farm in Saskatchewan, Canada “It’s very basic for me. When I go home, I don’t buy into any of the B.S. Like I said, it’s pretty basic: Train, sleep, family, fight. It’s my life. I like it.” Brock Lesnar
d848Q TIL that the gun on the A10 Warthog fighter plane produces so much recoil that, if you pointed backwards and never ran out of ammo, you could use it to fly.
OoyZa TIL of 'learned helplessness', behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It is caused by the subject's acceptance of powerlessness: discontinuing attempts to escape/avoid the aversive stimulus, even when alternatives are unambiguously presented.