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TIL the cowboy bebop episode"wild horses" was initially banned from TV because it involved the space shuttle Columbia being involved in a disaster, which had actually happened a few months after is was written.

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OGVlL TIL Vietnam is dealing with an increasing number of serious medical issues caused by fat-dissolving injections sold by shady beauticians and cosmetic treatment clinics, one of which is a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women that is banned by the FDA in the U.S.
1vd4 TIL Bob Barker learned karate from Chuck Norris and continued to train until he was in his 70s, when he decided that “the time had come to exercise more lightly.”
R7je7 TIL In 1984, an anti-cruise missile activist poured red paint on the only good copy of the Canadian Constitution. He was subsequently sentenced to 89 days in weekend jail.
KVVE TIL kids computers in the 80’s and 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people believed every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.
xyo1 TIL the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state approved it in 1789.