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TIL of Conspiracy Theory Rock - A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live, part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared because it "wasn't funny".

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B4VD TIL that in 1913 the first practical thermal solar ‘power plant’ was built in Egypt, it generated power using polished steel to focus the sunlight. Unfortunatly WW1 broke out and the power plant was abandoned due to conflict in the area and oil became a much more attractive energy source.
vPv9x TIL An estimated 350,000 Chinese visited North Korean in 2019 and the demographic visiting Pyongyang are between the age of 45 to 60. Many Chinese tell their guides that it is just like how they used to live
werP TIL Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
9wgWQ TIL that the late Dean Of Game Shoe Hosts, Bill Cullen, was pilot in the Army Air Forces during WW II. What made this feat so amazing is that he was disabled due to contracting polio at the age of 18 months and a drastic automobile accident in 1937. Because of this, he was stationed stateside.
nePQP Til that Sailing stones exist - rocks that move up to 5 meters per minute across the ground by themselves, leaving trails behind them. The movement is caused by temperature changes and they're so common in a part of Death Valley that it's called 'Racetrack playa' due to the 'tracks' that they leave.