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TIL Why daily serials/T.V. shows are called daily soaps. My teacher told about this in class. A company named P&G which manufactures soaps started the practice to push soap adverts between daily serials broadcasted on t.v. mainly targeted to READCOMMENT

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n1wY TIL Goose Pulling was European colonial era blood sport that involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope and a man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off.
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x68g7 TIL that in 2012 six Italian geologists were found guilty of manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people. They were sentenced to 6 years in jail, but the ruling was later overturned.