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TIL In 1977 Syracuse University communications students high jacked a tv station. They aired the brand new feature film ‘Rocky’ and some classic porn movies to the general public on channel 7. This went on for 2 days and during that time the FCC received ZERO complaints.

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6EVDm TIL that 844 people died aboard the SS Eastland because it had too MANY lifeboats. After the Titanic disaster, Congress passed laws requiring more lifeboats. This made the SS Eastland too top-heavy, and in 1915, it capsized before even leaving the dock.
9YVyr TIL A 48 year old man in Ohio was arrested because he would not stop cutting the grass at the local public park. The grass was over 12 inches long, so he decided to cut it. He claimed he was just trying to save the city some money.
Barb TIL, in the 1850’s, the South African Xhosa tribe had a teenage prophet who claimed all crops had to be burned and all cattle be killed, so that the spirits can sweep the British settlers to sea. 300k-400k cattle were killed, tragically resulting in famine that even caused cannibalism.
JY8L4 TIL the quote "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" is often misattributed to Voltaire, when it is actually from Kevin Alfred Strom, a convicted pedophile and Holocaust denier
JDdB TIL In The Quarterly Review of Biology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Uppsala University in Sweden have concluded through their research that sexual orientation is not genetic.