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TIL Bruce Jay Friedman attributed the inspiration for his groundbreaking play 'Steambath' (which was the first to show nudity on broadcast TV in America) to "bad experience with the food at a Chinese restaurant"

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dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”
7rKYx TIL the Italian city of Bologna had 180 towers by AD 1200. The tallest, at 320 ft (97 meters) high, still stands and was completed in AD 1119.
QrMe TIL that Strontium-90, an isotope emitted from nuclear fission, is chemically similar to calcium. This means that when it is inhaled after a nuclear blast, the body uses it as it would use calcium, depositing it straight into your bones where it delivers beta radiation to your bone marrow.
lom1K TIL the Titanic's watertight compartments likely caused its rapid sinking by keeping too much water weight in the bow of the boat. Without the compartments, the ship would have remained horizontal and taken several hours to sink allowing nearby ships to rescue all passengers in time.
nWedB TIL 12 out of 20 top long distance runners in the world came from a single kenyan tribe