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TIL the TV show "Cops" was greenlit because of the 1988 writer's strike when the network had to find entertainment that didn't need union writers.

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wpZo TIL the Church of Scientology ran several smear campaigns against author Paulette Cooper, one of their critics, including Operation Freakout, the goal of which was to have her admitted to a mental institution. Another, Operation Dynamite, used Cooper’s fingerprints to send bomb threats to the Church
KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”
xVMoo TIL that Winona Ryder Says Keanu Reeves Refused Direction to Verbally Abuse Her on Dracula Set
QJX6 TIL that after Johnny Carson joked on air about an imaginary toilet paper shortage, Americans began hoarding toilet paper, “causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks” (3rd paragraph)
PYXjG TIL "micellar water" is actually just "soapy water" (in name and function)