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TIL shortwave radio is still commonly used for news broadcasts around the world

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evG6 TIL that the reason NPR has a “signature sound” for its national broadcasts is because all hosts use a single model of microphone, the Neumann U87
op77 TIL That 70 years ago, waves of mass-suicide swept Germany at the end of WWII. Whole families would tie themselves together and go into the water or hang their children first and then themselves.
GYYW4 TIL American Apparel was bought, their clothing will be made outside of America as well.
5YNEn TIL that until 2017, the toilets on UK trains flushed onto the tracks below.
Wao TIL that Fox Studio passed on the ‘Watchmen’ movie because they thought the script was “one of the most unintelligible pieces of shit they had read in years”