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TIL: Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later

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5YRlB TIL: The US has its own version of the international foot measurement, the US Survey Foot Measurement.
VBO8Q TIL “Don’t Mess with Texas” was created as part of a marketing campaign aimed at 16-24 yr old males to stop throwing their trash all over Texas.
GZPQ TIL Most bats cannot take off from the ground. They spend their entire lives flying or upside down.
oRZNR TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.
VZap TIL As a result of writing ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ Erich Remarque’s sister was beheaded by the Nazis and the bill for her beheading sent to his other sister.