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TIL George Carlin requested he wear a bandage over his wedding ring when he played Cardinal Glick in the film DOGMA. Carlin’s wife had died before filming and he wasn’t ready to remove his wedding band. Kevin Smith obliged.

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OZdX TIL Al-Jazari, a Muslim polymath, inventor and scholar created the first robot, a female humanoid automata which washed the hands of her operators, 800 years ago.
6LZ7 TIL that during the 2014 Thai coup d'etat, sandwiches were used as an anti-coup symbol, and a group of students were charged with “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”.
LPLp TIL In the mid 1920’s the US Department of Prohibition ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols, products regularly stolen and resold as drinkable spirits. They did this to scare people out of drinking and to track where speakeasies were located. The program killed an estimated 10,000 people.
rg54 TIL that photographer Michal Huniewicz overrode his camera’s firmware to hide & not delete photos while he was in North Korea. He did this because guards & officials would take his camera from time to time & delete photos. This override allowed him to bring back these rare pictures of North Korea.
QJO1L TIL of Herman Francis Mark, an Austrian scientist and son of a Jew, who chose to flee Austria in 1938. He clandestinely bought platinum wire, worth roughly $50,000, which he bent into coat hangers while his wife knitted covers so that the hangers were able to be taken out of the country