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TIL that if a similar show launched today that went as far back as That 70s Show did when it first aired, it’d be about a group of high schoolers in 1994.

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N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
kO8vg TIL a CIA project called 'Operation Paperclip' allowed hundreds of Nazi scientists to live freely in the US providing them cushy jobs and a high standard of living. Many of these scientists have committed horrendous war crimes, like experimenting on live humans with chemical and biological weapons
4kMAb TIL there was an early 1900s act named "Sober Sue", who's draw was she never smiled. A theater offered $1000 to any one who could make her laugh, attracting big comedians. Crowds came out to watch them try, and fail, giving them a free show. Later it came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis.
mrAp TIL that in 1848 a panorama of Cincinnati was made using a special type of photo called daguerreotypes. In 2007, researchers discovered that each frame had detail equivalent to a 140 gigapixel digital photo.
BM1b TIL that when trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour.” And that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.”