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TIL that Jerry Sigel, the creator of Superman, was Jewish, and that the Superman story is full of Jewish metaphor.

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4kOmw TIL in 1800’s New York City, pigs roamed freely and ate trash in the streets. When city government attempted to ban them in 1821, pig owners refused and rioted, causing the government to suspend their efforts. Over the next 28 years, owners continued to riot anytime the city tried to ban pigs.
l7al1 TIL that in 1978, a 30 people hostage situation in Melbourne was resolved when the perpetrators mother stormed the place, hit him over the head with her handbag and told him to "stop being so stupid".
Oo6va TIL A day before she was to guest star on Hill Street Blues (1981), Dominique Dunne was badly beaten by her boyfriend. She showed up on the set with bruises on her face with no makeup; since she was playing an abused teen in the episode. The bruises we see in the episode are real.
LQjE9 TIL of Užupis, a self-proclaimed independent nation that declared its independence on April Fool's. Included in the Constitution are "everyone has the right to love a cat" and "a dog has the right to be a dog."
eRAD TIL: After the Chernobyl disaster, the soviets held a “May Day” parade to calm the public. The parade was exposed to deadly levels of radiation and all records of the event soon disappeared from the National Archives. The organizer committed suicide.