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TIL NBC refused to produce a Seinfeld episode where—in the script—George got in trouble for saying he’s never seen a black person ever order a salad.

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0wdG5 TIL that when Alice Cooper released their album "School's Out" to the public, they pranked the public by warping the record in a pair of vibrant colored (and flammable) panties
kJ4xd TIL Jeffrey Dahmer converted to Christianity after being baptized by a pastor named Roy Ratcliff. Dahmer met with Ratcliff every week to discuss the Bible until he was murdered 14 months later. Ratcliff described Dahmer as a truly changed man.
l7LGa TIL That there are many living descendants of the prophet Mohammed, including the current King of Jordan Abdullah II.
oBBMW TIL about the Sotadic Zone, a supposed geographic zone proposed by explorer and orientalist Richard F. Burton in which homosexuality is prevalent and celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants
mxnJR TIL in 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were discovered in the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.