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TIL over half of the Alcoholics Anonymous “12 steps” refer to God

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60K8 TIL Wal-Mart had to apologize in 2006 for their website recommending “Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/Assassination of MLK” as a similar item when customers searched for “Planet of the Apes”
XEAxQ TIL A mouse utopia experiment with unlimited food and water caused them to not breed, or carry pregnancies to term, violent tendencies, and isolation. The ones who isolated themselves avoided the violence but lost all social skills and stopped breeding all together.
Ypdxx TIL of the 1862 explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal, where almost all of the 78 workers that died from the massive set of explosions, were girls and young women, who replaced young boys/men who flouted common-sense safety precautions.
Zp44Y TIL Orion Pictures felt the 1989 film UHF would be more successful if it was PG-rated. To do it, two scenes would have been removed: one where a man gets his thumb cut off with a table saw and one where poodles were thrown out a window. Weird Al refused and did not regret it. No poodles were harmed.
kOAAd TIL The siren squelch at the beginning of the Emergency Broadcast System is actually a digital code that specifies who issued the alert, the type of threat, where it is affecting, and how long it is in place.