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R5Rr8 TIL the widely reported mass hysteria ensuing from 1973's The Exorcist is often exaggerated. Many instances of viewers fainting or leaving the cinema were not from the more gruesome possession scenes, but from an earlier medically-accurate scene where Regan gets blood drawn from her neck.
groob TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history
OR4X TIL that South Africa was one of the few countries that was unable to watch the Moon Landing live in 1969. Television was banned in South Africa at the time because there were fears that it would promote race mixing against nonwhites as the country was under Apartheid
JYb04 TIL That Broadway Street was called the Wickquasgeck trail in the Native American era.
laBK TIL the han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, tranposted it through pipelines and used it in stoves