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TIL the children's cartoon Arthur is still producing new episodes and is on its 21st season, and has been running longer than South Park

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d9D7 TIL that many laundry detergents use chemical trickery to make clothes appear whiter. They contain agents called optical brighteners that glow blue under florescent and incandescent light, making clothes appear whiter than they actually are. Incidentally, this trick does not work under LED lights.
e8BL TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.
5MJQ TIL greeting cards that play music contain mercury, making them unsafe to discard in the normal trash.
nZyo TIL that in 1977, the first gay action figure was released and the packaging looked like a closet
XEORX TIL that along with over 4000 tons of Gold, the US Government also stores millions of dollars worth of opium at Fort Knox.