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TIL in 1998 someone pulled an April Fools claiming Alabama had redefined pi to 3.0 to bring it in line with biblical values. Politicians got calls complaining

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xmMk TIL TV show “MAS*H” was never intended to have a laugh track. CBS forced the show’s creators to compromise that laughter was to be played over all scenes except surgery scenes to lighten the show’s mood. The show was aired in the UK without a laugh track, as the creators intended
oR5nK TIL about Famadihana, a funerary tradition of Madagascar. People bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap them in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names so they will always be remembered. The practice is thought to be connected to pneumonic plague transmission
mkVR TIL: Getting a blood transfusion won’t change your DNA and an episode of M.A.S.H. addressed this issue in which they tricked a racist soldier to think that he had turned black after getting blood from a black donor.
5YY0B TIL that following his development of the icepick lobotomy, Dr. Walter Freeman began traveling across the country visiting mental institutions in his personal van, which he called the "lobotomobile".
wQXW TIL Katy Perry’s parents wouldn’t let her eat Lucky Charms as a child, because the word “luck” was considered satanic.