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TIL the NFL doesn't play on Friday and Saturday because the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act prohibits them from doing so to protect fans of college and high school football.

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eEZg TIL John C. Reilly appeared in three of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 2002 Academy Awards (Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours)
wLmx1 TIL In the film Osmosis Jones, Bill Murray's character mentions a "National Chicken Wing Festival" in Buffalo, New York. While the festival did not exist during the filming of the movie, this mention caused organizers to create an annual festival in Buffalo which has been active now for 16 years.
NodQ TIL an autistic man was lost in the Utah forest for over 3 weeks, surviving by rolling in and out of a river during the day/night. He was found by a sheriff who had just happened to finish a class on missing autistic people.
N0yM TIL Nestlé has a sordid history including price fixing, deliberately misleading advertisements, melamine and e coli poisoning, child slave labor use, and causing the death of countless third world children.
GAP7J TIL that even if a Nuclear Winter occurred, it would be followed by a Nuclear Summer