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TIL There's 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work

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95m6 TIL the TV special “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos” was cancelled while it was still airing when the network’s owner called the studio and told them “Get that shit off the air!”
7rrGp TIL if Mars' polar ice caps were to melt the entire planet would be covered in 11 meters (36 feet) of water
ep6k6 TIL that in the early '80s the CIA helped facilitate the widespread sale of cocaine in poor L.A. neighborhoods to help finance the covert war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The journalist who revealed this later killed himself after a smear campaign.
k7E7 TIL one in six Brits would have sex with a robot
G9kg TIL that a Greek prime minister in 1830’s tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren’t interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People later started stealing these potatoes a lot which spread the crop to all of Greece.