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TIL that art and music used to be in the Olympics

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gm0A TIL Richard Belzer as John Munch is the only fictional character, played by a single actor, to appear on ten different television shows including Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU, The X-Files and The Wire.
oovK TIL that, while it had 8 seasons, That ‘70s Show took place over the span of just over 3 and a half years
BZ7D TIL that during WWII, actress Veronica Lake changed her image in order to encourage women working in factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles, even though doing so may have harmed her career.
LQP1r TIL that on the morning of 9/11/01, avante-garde composer William Basinki completed the Disintigration Loops. Composed of tape loops slowly disintigrating in the process of being digitized, Basinki dedicated the albums to the victims of the WTC attacks, which he witnessed from his Brooklyn apartment
18Lr TIL the U.S. Army illegally performed “psychological operations” to manipulate American senators into providing more troops and war funding – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.