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TIL Last year the US government repealed its ban on domestic propaganda.

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JYxRQ TIL in 1961 Charlton Heston led a demonstration against segregated restaurants in Oklahoma
XgQR TIL in Sept of 1986, Late Night with David Letterman aired a rerun of a Feb show. Letterman had the entire rerun dubbed from English to English using the cast of Speed Racer as the voices.
j6p6n TIL the first business idea of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs wasn't Apple but a business called Blue Box. Long distance calls in the 70s was very expensive so they made an illegal device that would trick phone companies into connecting you to phone numbers overseas.
WNEo TIL Truman Capote once autographed around a woman’s navel. Her drunk, jealous husband pulled out his penis and asked Capote if he could sign it. Capote looked at it and replied, “Well, I don’t know if I can autograph it, but perhaps I could initial it.”
P10QG TIL that 5 of the Top 10 wealthiest counties in the USA are MD/VA suburbs of Washington D.C. where the median income is roughly $134,000