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TIL that 60 Minutes was the first regularly scheduled program in the U.S not to have an opening theme song.

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W7ad TIL in 1917 Germans built a 25-foot-tall armor-plated fake tree with a soldier sitting in it to spy on Allied forces. the Germans waited until nightfall and cut down one of the real trees to replace it with the fake one With artillery firing the whole time so the Brits wouldn’t hear the axes.
78a8M TIL All of Mr Rogers' sweaters were knitted by his mom
6Er5Z TIL that in 1969, Yoko Ono directed the film Self-Portrait, which consisted of a single 42 minute shot of John Lennon’s semi erect penis.
504B TIL With a permanent population of less than one million people, Qatar hires migrant workers to fill their empty stadiums in the Qatar Stars League, paying them one dollar an hour to “sit in the stadiums and pretend to have fun”.
b91NZ TIL In the late 1600s, London coffeehouses were seen as areas of political unrest because they were popular with political men and writers. The Women's Petition claimed coffee drinking was an intellectual, effeminate pastime which made their husbands impotent.