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TIL until 1978 more Americans listened to AM than FM radio broadcasts.

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GYDp7 TIL that US sailors captured by North Korea, were flipping the middle finger in photos to protest the propaganda on their treatment. The North Koreans for months photographed them without knowing the real meaning of the finger, while the sailors explained that the sign meant good luck in Hawaii.
rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.
LQLOZ TIL the shape created by bending a rod is called an "elastica curve"
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X0O9D TIL, that the time loop mechanic in the game The Legends of Zelda: Majora's Mask was inspired by the experimental German film Run Lola Run (1998) that features a time loop of a girl named Lola going through several loops to save her boyfriend.