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TIL during Super Bowl XLIII, Comcast’s transmission of the game was interrupted for approximately 20 seconds and replaced with soft-core porn.

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mxO9M TIL in 1974 Howard Hughes helped the CIA raise part of a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet - all without the Soviets knowing. They recovered two nuclear torpedoes, documents, and the remains of 6 sailors - who they respectfully buried at sea.
mxwlR TIL that the guy who played the psychopathic murderer in the movie "Panic Room" is a best-selling country music artist named Dwight Yoakam who holds the record for appearing the most times as a musical guest on The Tonight Show
P6KL TIL about a Black man that convinced 200 Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the white supremacist group by befriending them
OY51 TIL that in 1953 the U.S and U.K. worked together to overthrow the Democratic Iranian government.
v1nnj TIL that Black actor Trevor Laird was scripted to appear in a sex scene with a white girl in the film Quadrophenia, but the producers demanded he be excluded from it in case the film was shown in the southern US or South Africa.