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TIL: 25 million viewers switched from CBS to Fox’s ‘In Living Color’ during the halftime of Super Bowl XXVI. As a result, the Super Bowl has had high-profile entertainers ever since

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GkDN TIL that nearly 3% of American films in the 1960’s contained scenes involving quicksand
kJevW TIL that Botulinum toxin is the most poisonous substance known. It is estimated that a single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed & inhaled, can kill more than one million people and a couple of kg would kill every human on earth.
BrxXr TIL gay and trans people were widely accepted in India, until European colonists made them illegal.
nWNa7 TIL that there is a plan in place to re-fill the Great Salt Lake with water from the Pacific Ocean
x7mb TIL it is illegal in the state of Texas to own more than six dildos