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TIL that Fahrenheit 451 was serialized in Playboy
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TIL that the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen,” which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war.
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TIL - HTTP error code 451 = "Unavailable For Legal Reasons". Displayed when the user requests an resource which cannot be served a web page that is censored by a government. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.
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TIL in 1981 a man with cerebral palsy appeared on a UK kids’ TV show to demonstrate how much a disabled person can achieve. Instead it sparked a nationwide trend of schoolchildren mocking his speech and calling each other “spastic” as an insult.
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TIL Some Wasps Lay Eggs in Different Kinds of Harmful Insects So As Not to Spread and Inflict More Damage
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TIL in 2015 Equity LifeStyle Properties, the US' largest trailer park owner, had controlling interests in nearly 140,000 parks.