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TIL collecting recycling is more than twice as dangerous as being a cop in the US

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9OOB TIL there was a fake French reality show in the style of the Milgram experiment, which made real and unwitting contestants shock someone on TV. 80% of them kept shocking the person (who was just an actor), even after he cried out for them to stop. 60% shocked him till he appeared to die.
nWBk7 TIL In 1989, when HDTV first came onto the Japanese market, the cost of an HDTV and HDTV Receiver which was required to pick up HD satellite television signals was $12,800 or $32,160 in 2024 money.
O8X4 TIL Kurt Cobain had wanted the cheerleaders in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video to be fat and unattractive; the director didn’t like this idea and instead recruited them from L.A. strip clubs
woboY TIL that zircon crystals help scientists date the Earth because their uranium atoms slowly turn into lead over billions of years. The oldest zircons, found in Australia, are over 4 billion years old.
LNm TIL Dave Chappelle is the only person who did commercials for Coke AND Pepsi