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TIL prohibition was law in Kansas until after World War II

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8a0R8 TIL Ricky Gervais was an 1980s Pop Sensation in the Philippines
XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)
PYv9e TIL The Ramones named their band as tribute to Paul McCartney early days with The Beatles when he was known as Paul Ramone
BZ4W TIL that author Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel without using the letter “e”. To this day it is considered one of the finest examples of constrained writing.
R7pWQ TIL The Pixar film Coco, which features the spirits of dead family members, got past China's censors with 0 cuts. In China, superstition is taboo due to the belief spiritual forces could undermine people’s faith in the communist party. The censors were so moved by the film, they gave it a full pass.