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TIL the writers of Malcom in the Middle had a game called “What won’t Bryan [Cranston] do?” that culminated in him wearing the infamous suit of bees. They gave up and changed it to “What can’t Bryan do?” which saw Hal disco-skating, washing a car in Daisy Dukes, and painting with his full body.

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wLoeJ "What if we could just cool the planet off by making it more reflective—more like a disco ball than a baseball? Actually, we could. It’s called solar geoengineering. Scientists could release materials into the stratosphere that reflect sunlight back into space, kind of like slapping giant sunglasses on Earth."
m1vv TIL after WWII, a group of Jewish avengers called Nokmim hunted down and executed Nazis. One Gestapo officer was killed with a kerosene injection while at the hospital for surgery.
QrDM TIL that Mr. Rogers testified in the landmark case for people’s right to record TV programs, saying that people should be able to decide when they watch TV: “I am opposed to people being programmed by others”
79xO TIL a man walked into a Walmart wearing an employee vest, told a cashier that they were wanted in the office, helped the remaining customer in line, emptied the cash register, then walked right out.
OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.