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TIL between 1967 and 1991 the USSR produced thousands of TV ads for non-existent products

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lwg7 TIL of Sgt Earl Hale. While taking six SS officers prisoner, one slashed Hale’s throat. He survived and remained in the European Theater. Later, General Patton himself would berate him for being out of uniform until he produced a doctor’s note excusing him from wearing the required tie.
v1VMr TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)
KOydE TIL that Roman Emperor Valentinian died whilst yelling at a group of barbarians due to becoming so angry that a blood vessel in his skull burst
bjga TIL: Kim Jong Un was voted Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2012 after 4chan users hijacked the magazine’s online polls
x60VB TIL that Mel Brooks won his first Oscar as a narrator in a short animated cartoon depicting an elderly gentleman in a wrong movie theater watching an abstract movie, who struggles to understand what he's actually looking at