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TIL: The original 1983 V miniseries was inspired by the 1935 novel It Couldn’t Happen Here but with American fascists replaced by an alien occupying force to make it easier to market.

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DElp TIL All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to switch their sex, but will do so only to become the dominant female of a group.
kVG5 TIL Grapes always become wine when pressed. It wasn’t until 1869 that physician Thomas Welch created a way to stop the fermentation. He later founded Welch’s Grape Juice.
wLV6 TIL in the French version of Animal Farm by George Orwell “Napoleon” the pig is often changed to “Caesar”. This is because it’s illegal to name a pig Napoleon in France
A1Zo TIL in 1981, the Brazilian dictatorship planned an attack to an event attended by 20k people. The 2 soldiers that carried the attack made a mistake and ended up blowing the bomb on themselves (1 dead, 1 injured). The attack was planned to convince the country that left-wing guerrilas were a threat.
e0p1L TIL of "Skin Hunger" , where not receiving adequate human touch can have emotional and physical consequences.