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TIL that George C Scott refused to accept the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1971, and described the Oscar ceremony as “a two-hour meat parade”.

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5EEQ TIL that lawn darts (“Jarts”) were banned in the US and Canada in the 1970’s and 1980’s and the ban still stands today.
5vxQ TIL that Howard Stern ran for Governor of New York in 1994 promising to limit road work to night hours. He eventually withdrew, but later that year, The Howard Stern Bill was signed into law which limited road construction in New York City and Long Island to night hours.
4156 TIL that Actiq is a drug that is 100 times more potent than morphine and its dosage unit is a berry flavored lozenge on a stick (i.e. a lollipop).
oByoR TIL that in 1998 there was a Japanese show called "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" where a man had to earn $10,000 worth of supplies to leave a room by entering contests. He ended up being alone in a room for over a year, losing his mind, unaware that his life was being broadcast the whole time.
wLd0o TIL that in 1910, before the rise of cigarettes, Alton Ochsner was told to watch an autopsy of a lung cancer patient because he might never see the disease again. Later, Ochsner's clinic would help prove the link between smoking and cancer.