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TIL that Swedish band Roxette gained fame in the US thanks to an exchange student, Dean Cushman, who brought their album back home with him from Sweden

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6EgLY TIL that MAS*H aired on BBC2 in the UK without a laugh track, as the creators of the show intended it to be seen, while CBS studio executives would not air the show in the US without one. Series creator Larry Gelbart later said: "I always thought it cheapened the show. The network got their way."
MeRl0 TIL Work at Bell Labs resulted in 9 Nobel Prizes & 4 Turing Awards. Bell laid the first transoceanic phone cable, mapped dark matter, created radio astronomy, the transistor, laser, solar cell, information theory, Unix, C & C++, error detection, cell phones, optical tweezers, electron lithography.
wLDNM TIL that for the movie "O Brother, Where art Thou?", the cows that were shot and hit by the police car looked so realistic that the American Humane Society wouldn't immediately certify the movie as "No Animals Were Harmed". A representative had to be shown how they were digitally created ten times.
wjG1 TIL In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front of a Train, Rail Companies charge your family a fee.
KYMra TIL about Kenneth Pinyan, who died from fatal internal injuries received during anal sex with a stallion