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TIL that air sirens are not just really loud speakers but spinning wheels that create pressure waves

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vRgB TIL Bill Clinton has a brother, who was nicknamed “Headache” by the secret service, due to his knack for landing in trouble.
16wKd TIL of "Fruits of Philosophy" a 1832 book describing methods of contraceptions. Writing about an 'obscene' topic the author, physician Charles Knowlton, was prosecuted and jailed. With the book's sensetive topic it was published as a measly 3 by 2.5 inches to make it easy for women to hide
grXbb TIL longtime Simpsons script supervisor Doris Grau provided the voice for the character of Lunchlady Doris as well as the chain smoking makeup artist Doris Grossman on the animated show The Critic.
Rjm6 TIL In 2011, a Supreme Court case decided that prisoners in a for-profit prison couldn’t sue anybody if their right from cruel and unusual punishment was violated, as it’s a corporation doing the cruel and unusual punishing, not the government.
lo9WG TIL CBS was supposed to use the song 'One Shining Moment' after Super Bowl XXI but game coverage ran long and the music montage was cut, so they used it after the NCAA Men's Division I National Championship Game a few months later and it's now been a March Madness staple for more than 30 years.