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TIL Roberto Escobar is suing Netflix to the tune of $1B for misrepresentation of his family in the show “Narcos”

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9YZEB TIL Hugh MacDiarmid was kicked out of the Scottish National Party for being a Communist and was kicked out of the Communist Party for being a Scottish Nationalist

9wdAX TIL that approx. half a second of the first prime time, lesbian kiss on British TV was included in the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, and broadcast to 76 countries where homosexuality is a crime

Wkr19 TIL that in the 1940s, the USSR had a program designed to study the excrement of foreign leaders. It was believed that traces of various compounds in feces could give insights into each leader's psychology.

19yW TIL that there is a man who has made a living for over 30 years startling people at Fisherman’s Wharf in California. He reportedly makes $60,000 “in a good year.”

e0dK6 TIL of the scrapped animated spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show would have followed fictional winners of the show who communicated with a fictional host based in the 'Millionaire Command Center'