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TIL the first music video shown on MTV was "video killed the radio star"

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rvMy TIL During the French Revolution someone promised to keep blinking as long as he could after he was beheaded as an experiment. A friend watched. It took about 15-seconds before he stopped.
dabK TIL more than 2000 elderly Hollywood writers, unwilling to write for explicit modern sensibilities, are now writing for Chinese television instead. They’re the Emmy-winning minds behind classic TV like Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice & The Jeffersons.
5YZQp TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the "monster study", it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.
v1Na7 Til: The United States ratified the Marrakesh Treaty back in 2019 which joined the united states in a treaty that facilitates access to publications for those with print disabilities(blindness or visual impairments).
8OeP TIL the dish Chicken Tikka Masala originated from Glasgow, Scotland