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TIL that Russia’s answer to Eurovision was called Intervision and it was judged by Electricity Grid Voting: “Those watching at home had to turn their lights on when they liked a song and off when they didn’t, with data from the electricity network then being used to allocate points”

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0drJN TIL that thing that you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch has a name other than that thing you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch. It's called a "lagger".
BrMVD TIL the first Zildjian cymbals were created in 1618 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold. He made an alloy of tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal, which could make musical sounds without shattering.
D1JNe TIL Zack Snyder has never seen the theatrical cut of Justice League, a movie he is credited with as sole director. He left the project after a family tragedy in 2017 while the film was in post-production. He is currently working on his own director’s cut of the film to be released on HBO next year.
W0yY TIL Improbable Research tested the limits of the United States Postal Service by sending a variety of unusual unpackaged items then documenting how many were delivered.
1awW4 TIL that in 1982, a man died while vandalizing a saguaro cactus for fun. He shot the cactus repetitively and then went up to poke it to try to get it to fall over. Instead, the 500-pound saguaro arm fell and killed him.