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TIL Adult Swim put an entire episode of Rick and Morty (Rixty Minutes) on instagram using 109 15 second clips, in reverse order, so that viewers couldn’t watch sequentially until the last clip was posted. “It’s our latest frustrating excercise in audience engagement.”

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9xJ6 TIL In 2009 after being told they can’t publish anything that is negative in nature, relating to the government The Fiji Daily Post decided to mock the media restrictions handed down by the government by reporting such stories as: “Man gets on bus” and “Breakfast as usual”
D18dv TIL in 1915 the Boy Scouts created a secret society with its own symbols, handshakes, and private rituals. It was eventually named "Order of the Arrow" and was inspired by Native American and Masonic culture. Their society was also influenced by the poem "Hiawatha" and novel "Last of the Mohicans".
168oW TIL that the shockwave generated by the Tsar Bomba was so powerful that it was recorded by seismic stations around the world, confirming that the seismic shockwave circled the globe three times, shattering glass windows in buildings more than 400 miles away.
1aWw4 TIL That the inventor of petroleum jelly ate a spoonful every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. He lived to be 96. He also, reportedly, during a serious bout of pleurisy in his mid-50s, had his nurse rub him from head to foot with the substance. He soon recovered
Br8dx TIL Yahoo! paid Mark Cuban $5.7billion for Broadcast.com - a service that has since been discontinued.