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TIL American cinemas used to have a "Dish Night", where patrons who attended would be given a free piece of tableware such as a dish, cup, or soup bowl.

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6mQ TIL that over the years scientists have discovered close to 2,000 “Bog Bodies”, incredibly preserved corpses found in peat bogs dating back to the Iron Age. The skin and organs are intact but the acid in the bog has dissolved all the bones.
yQmYw TIL that in McMinn County, Tennessee in 1946, WWII veterans successfully fought an armed rebellion against sheriff's deputies and local government officials who had been shooting and arresting voters in a desperate attempt to keep the local political machine in power against overwhelming opposition.
wLkK6 TIL that Reginald Dwayne Betts spent 8 years in prison as a result of carjacking when he was 16 after getting out of prison he became one of the rare convicted felons to get a law degree from Yale and passed the Connecticut bar exam in September 2017.
5Yel9 TIL Mike Myers' 2008 film "The Love Guru" was so badly received by critics he hasn't had an on-camera starring role in a film since. One critic, in his review, predicted it would be "career-killing" for Myers and "one of the worst films of at least the past several years."
nmPb TIL a man was awarded the Fields Medal and $1 million for his 26 page essay proving that everything can be formed into a sphere. He turned down the money, saying he doesn’t do math for money. He still lives in a bare, cockroach infested apartment.