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Today I learned that female navels were banned from American television from 1951 to 1983.

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5YR4r TIL Disney made a knockoff Star Wars rockband in 1981 called HALYX. The band played one summer at Disneyland and featured among many characters a bass playing "wookie". One of the songs they performed in front of kids and teens at Disneyland was a song about Jailbait called, "Jailbait"
p79N TIL Adobe actively supports the transition of Flash to HTML5 and have released a tool that converts Flash to HTML5.
lnrA TIL - In 1797 George Washington opened a whiskey distillery three miles from his Virginia estate, and in 1799 it produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey and made Washington the largest American whiskey producer in the 18th century.
D1NNY TIL an American man built a log cabin in Alaska and then just kept adding more and more floors until he reached 185-feet. At this point, he was forced to stop building as federal airspace starts at 200 feet. In the future, he still intends to squeeze in one more floor.
vPVnL TIL about the sport Slippery Stairs where contestants try to climb stairs covered in lube