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TIL there’s an entire series of health and safety posters based on The Simpsons.

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d1yQ TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, another opens" is actually an Alexander Graham Bell quote which he followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
yVA0J TIL whilst running for Governor of Alabama in 1962, former Governor Jim Folsom appeared drunk in a TV advertisement. This further helped his former protégé George C. Wallace defeat him in the primary.
X0mZ6 TIL about Comstock laws. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[2] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information.
mxXJo TIL until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only' flights featuring complimentary cigars, cocktails and a full-course steak dinner in the exclusive company of other men (besides the stewardesses, of course).
WkyK8 TIL no alarms went off on the day of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion because they'd been disabled to spare workers from being woken up by false alarms.