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7bJM TIL Referring to police as “Five-O” derived from the name of the television series Hawaii Five-O. While they named it Hawaii Five-O in honor of Hawaii’s being the 50th state.
0wpEA TIL a Kent State communications major took an audio recording of the war protest from his dorm room in 1970. He created the only real-time account of the shooting, and his original tape was destroyed by the Department of Justice in 1979.
Yr9x TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.
E11MX TIL that human fingers/toes getting wrinkly when in the bath/swimming is a actually NOT caused by water soaking into the skin. This effect does not happen if there is nerve damage in the finger, which means it is actually an involuntary autonomic nervous system response causing wrinkly fingers.
b9NA7 TIL that the TV show Mork & Mindy is a spinoff of a specific episode of Happy Days, which featured Mork trying to take Richie back to his home planet. The show was trying to capitalize on the popularity of the recently released Star Wars.