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TIL Pennsylvania Leads the World in Junk Food Production

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PABE TIL that internet censorship is pervasive in South Korea including blocking of sites critical of the government, pornography, sites related to North Korea, and copyrighted material
EL7d TIL that when Ken McElroy was murdered with at least two different guns, the residents of Skidmore, Missouri refused to identify the shooters. For decades he was known as the ‘town bully’ due to multiple crimes throughout town, and at the time was on trial for shooting an elderly grocer in the neck.
vEB TIL That a film adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Call of Cthulhu” was made in 2005 in the style of a 1930’s silent film.
gMpQ8 TIL air conditioning is not popular in Europe. Only 5% of French homes are air-conditioned, 2% of German homes. Many travel sites include horror stories from Europeans describing how "unpleasant the United States is with its artificial cold, and reports of legions of Europeans who return ill."
8aLO4 TIL Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan because Stetson Kennedy wanted to expose the Klan after infiltrating them, the authorities weren't interested but the writers of Superman were willing to write it as a new plotline for Superman, which eventually caused the Klan's influence to fizzle out.