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TIL 91% of Americans watched the OJ Simpson trial verdict. It was the most unproductive half hour in American history and cost the US economy $480 million.

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8eQJV TIL of Stanley Adams who became a whistleblower against Hoffmann-LaRoche in 1973. His name leaked, and was sued for industrial espionage facing 20 years in prison (serving only 6 months). During the trial his wife commited suicide. In 1994 he was caught hiring an assassin to murder his second wife
nWplW TIL that on 9/11 a 5th airliner was presumed to be hijacked because the pilot changed the squawk code to 7500, which indicated a hijacking. Despite being a mistake, the airliner was diverted to Canada and was escorted there by US F-15s.
Wow9 TIL Yogi Bear as well as many other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, were given white collars so the Animators would have to draw less. Redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke.
ADDwg TIL that a psychiatric study done on survivors of the WWII London bombings shows that while people that barely survived suffered shock and trauma, people farther away felt a "feeling of excitement with a flavor of invulnerability".
wLbZM TIL C.W. Post created Grapenuts (purported to cure appendicitis) after visiting a sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg. Post later developed appendicitis himself and, after not obtaining relief from surgery, died of a self inflicted gunshot wound.