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TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.

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loXrK TIL that Felix Salten, author of one of the most notorious and depraved works of erotic fiction in world literature ("Josefine Mutzenbacher") also wrote the book on which Disney's "Bambi" is based.
j6x4E TIL about Hunger Stones, rocks placed in rivers below a certain depth and meant to be revealed during times of drought and famine. When one is found, it is marked with the current year, some still bearing dates from the 1600s. One found in the Czech Republic in 2018 reads "If you see me, weep"
0dy8v TIL of the Turpan water system, an ancient network of thousands of hand dug wells and 5000 km of underground canals built under the Taklaman desert to channel groundwater to the Oasis city of Turpan, used to irrigate agriculture and provide water to the many caravans traveling the Silk Road.
rNXQw TIL that the world record for the longest cutscene in gaming history is the epilouge cutscene in Metal Gear Solid 4 with a length of 71 minutes. Second place is the pre-final battle cutscene for the game Star Ocean: The Last Hope with a length of 46 minutes.
8egpK TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech on 12/8/1941 about the attack on Pearl Harbor attracted the largest audience in American radio history, with over 81% of adult American listeners tuning in to hear the speech.