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TIL when twister was first launched, critics denounced it by asserting that it was “sex in a box”.

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KOrYJ TIL"Enron Fraud", the largest bankruptcy reorganization in American history. The energy company's bankruptcy in 2001 after allegations of massive accounting fraud wiped out $78 billion in stock market value and led to the collapse of Arthur Andersen and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
m8Gp TIL that the crowd at a Rage Against the Machine gig in Holland 1994 stomped so hard to the song ‘Killing In the Name’ that it measured 1.1 on the Richter scale.
1aLpd TIL the last person to receive a Civil War pension died in June 2020.
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.
RVj6 TIL that the actress who played B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager has directed episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Under the Dome, Treme, Heroes, Melrose Place, and Lost.