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TIL during the September 11 attacks, Fox News began running a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained in continuous use ever since.

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0gj1 TIL held in farts enter your bloodstream
bBNN TIL that there is a word that rhymes with orange. It’s “sporange” and is a botanical term.
Z8KEo TIL that Oklahoma is the only state to have an official state meal (not just a state food). It consists of squash, cornbread, fried okra, BBQ pork, grits, biscuits, sausage and gravy, corn, chicken-fried steak, black-eyed peas, strawberries, and pecan pie.
D1w1r TIL Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. when making a propaganda film about how well Prisoners Of War were being treated in north Vietnam blinked in Morse code the word 'T-O-R-T-U-R-E.
E1PnP TIL Marcel Marceau, perhaps the world’s most famous mime, was a Jewish member of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. His own father had perished in Auschwitz. He used his skills as a mime to help keep children quiet while the Resistance smuggled them to safety.