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TIL The FCC does not monitor for excessively loud commercials, but relies solely on consumer complaints.

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plr4 TIL that emergency and city transit vehicles have an infrared emitter to forcibly change traffic lights.
GYK51 TIL Between 1600 - 1800, chimney sweeps in their adolescence often suffered and died from Chimney Sweep Cancer, a horribly painful and fatal cancer of the scrotum.
oBrN7 TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
BgVBd TIL In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt and Eric Bana did not use stunt doubles for their epic duel. They made a gentleman's agreement to pay for every accidental hit. $50 for each light hit, $100 for each hard blow. By the end of the scene, Bana didn't owe Pitt anything. Pitt ended up paying Bana $750.
XlNP TIL McDonald’s Monopoly was actually rigged for many years. The man who oversaw the distribution of game peices would give high value ones to friends and split the reward.