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TIL IMAX projectionists have to wear protective body armor while handling or changing the projectors lamp

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WkgKX TIL in 1980 after causing roughly $200,000 in damage to SNL property and shouting “fuck New York” into the microphone, the punk band FEAR was banned from NBC for life
R7xkj TIL Sigmund Freud's nephew convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast
6E7eQ TIL Coca-Cola is sometimes used medically to dissolve 'phytobezoars' - large indigestible balls of material in the digestive tract. It works by dissolving material that otherwise would not be broken down.
vO6x TIL that in the original story, Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince.
OGn4L TIL Yorkshire has a little burbling creek that is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it