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TIL in Germany they teach kids how to hide a boner…on TV!

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wLJBo TIL on Take Your Child to Work Day in 2016, a kid visiting the studio accidentally took NPR off the air for a full minute along the west coast.
DQXgr TIL Bob Newhart won the 1960 Grammy Awards for both Album of the Year and Best New Artist. Overall, not for comedy.
jN6WR TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for days afterward. The researchers never again did such a thing.
7rXEX TIL: Weezer's video for Buddy Holly, done as an episode of Happy Days, used no digital effects; only "clever camera effects and editing".
rNXYM TIL Napoleon descended from Italians and was born in Corsica just one year after the Republic of Genoa ceded it to Louis XV of France.