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TIL: Loofahs don’t come from the sea. They’re gourds!

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9w7Wp TIL of the 1950's Quiz Show Scandal. It was discovered that several televised quiz shows were fixing the winners, leading to public outrage. In response, Congress passed a federal law that outlaws any contest or game with "prearranged or predetermined" winners or an "intent to deceive the audience."
kJGpd TIL Known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, in 1930 the United States enacted heavy tariffs that ultimately failed to achieve their intended outcome. Some economists attributed that action as leading to the Great Depression.
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
WkYMA TIL that scientists have theorized for years on how to create graphene (the strongest material on earth). Two researchers won the 2010 Nobel Prize by simply using scotch tape to peel it off of graphite.
8eQEV TIL about Stephen King’s Dollar Babies, a program in which Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for 1$ to film students to help their careers