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TIL that was film director Mike Nichols was the impetus for split up of Simon and Garfunkel

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wvD7 TIL that a nudity war began on Brazilian TV in 1990. A network won top ratings with a prime-time soap opera with full frontal nudity; another fought back with uncut nudity in films. A third television network instead aired high-quality literary adaptations, and had the worst ratings in its history.
k5b4 TIL: Black men make up 5% of population, 50% of murder convictions
j6XLn TIL that in 1965, a fire broke out in a Titan II ICBM silo, killing 53 workers. In 1980, this same missile exploded while in its new silo, blowing the 740 ton silo door off and ejecting the missle and its 9 megaton nuclear warhead
X5lD TIL it’s a bad idea to use a banana for scale when taking pictures of a beehive, since the alarm pheromone to alert bees to defend their hive smells like bananas
0WGy TIL humans are the only mammals with permanently swollen breasts. We have boobs all the time, other animals only have them when nursing.