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TIL the editors of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule pipe their footage through a videocassette recorder, and then hit the machine to simulate jumpy synchronization, to give it that poor quality feel.

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oRYd8 TIL that the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton was not the first Broadway play titled "Hamilton" that depicted the life of Alexander Hamilton. The first Hamilton wasn't a musical, though, and it was released in 1915. The 1915 play was adapted into a film released in 1931
Wg7B TIL Scientists in the South Pole have a tradition of sitting in a sauna and then running outside naked to the ceremonial pole and back. They can go from a 200° F sauna to -100° F outside. They have to do it fast enough before frostbite on essential reproductory equipment. Not all are successful.
mxkjR TIL there is a traffic signal in Syracuse, NY where the green signal is on the top because local Irish youths kept breaking it when the "British" red symbol appeared on top. When they refused to stop breaking it, the State gave in.
epWgJ TIL While Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin was lugging heavy objects on the Moon, flight surgeons noticed an irregularity in his heart rate and realized he had bigeminy. His heart condition eventually killed him 20 years later.
gr567 TIL that the first ever instance of an individual being convicted for war crimes occurred in May of 1474, and the defendant was Peter von Hagenbach, a knight and governor of Upper Alsace for the Duchy of Burgundy. Turns out 'I was just following orders' is an old excuse.