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TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.

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lgYA TIL because Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. they loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along the way
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grOpD TIL that an unknown 19th century Japanese artist painted a parody of the sacred scene of the Buddha's death that is commonly called the "Penis Paranirvana", in which the dying Buddha is replaced by a giant anthropomorphic penis being mourned by women and other penises.
5YoP9 TIL, "On an autumn night in 1978, 4 fast-food workers vanished from their shift. 41 years later, police still don't know who killed them."
Q5Ne TIL in V for Vendetta, the motto of Norsefire, the totalitarian fascists that conquer Britain and create a Nazi-esque dictatorship, is “Make Britain Great Again”