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TIL that the director of the Jeepers Creepers film series is a convicted pedophile

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wLd6o TIL about “concussionist" R.G. Dyrenforth, hired by the U.S. government in 1891 to make it rain over Texas by blasting water from the skies with explosives. Despite being "certain that rain can be caused by explosion in mid-air," he just managed to catch all manner of things on fire with his kites.
56r TIL during WWII, 12000 conscientious objectors served the government without pay. Their many jobs included smokejumping into forest fires, being human test subjects, and working at mental hospitals, where their pacifist approach revolutionized the way mental patients were treated.
R5g8j TIL Coors Brewing survived prohibition, in part, from selling malted milk to Mars candy company. And producing Manna a near beer.
4Xjd6 TIL Winston Churchill got Iran to change its name to Persia, to avoid confusion with Iraq during WW2
lvw5 TIL There is a rare Japanese game on the PS1 called LSD: Dream Emulator