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TIL the BBC received over 47,000 complaints about its plans to screen "Jerry Springer: The Opera" in 2005. It was the most complaints ever received about a British television broadcast, and was attributed to an orchestrated campaign by Christian groups

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4evX TIL in the original story of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys do age, even in Neverland. The reason the group is always made up of children is because if they don’t die by other means (which is common), Peter “thins them out.” The author never clarifies whether this means they’re executed or banished.
gMd1X TIL after Marvin Gaye recorded “What’s Going On”, he played it for Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. who said it was “the worst thing I heard in my life.” Only after Gaye threatened to leave the label was it released, becoming massive hit and considered 4th greatest song of all time by the Rolling Stone.
QJv1e TIL that due to the high number of foreigners in the UAE, where citizens make up only 11% of the population, the country is 72% male.
VM4NG TIL that a coach for the Los Angles Angels in the early 90s was at one point a roommate of Babe Ruth
awJOA TIL During the notorious filming for 1963's "Cleopatra"20th Century Fox regularly had chilli from the Beverly Hills restaurant Chasen's air-freighted to Rome to keep star Elizabeth Taylor happy. The film cost eventually almost bust Fox