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TIL in 2007 Comcast accidentally broadcasted hardcore pornography on Disney Channel instead of “Handy Manny”

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ne6R7 TIL A bad grape harvest in 1985 led to Austrian wine producers adding antifreeze to their wines in order to lessen the sour taste, collapsing the Austrian wine market.
Qnlk TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
N709P TIL that President Nixon used the sonic booms of 3 SR-71 Black Birds to signal to American POW's in Hanoi that if they could escape and make it down the river, American forces would be there to rescue them.
vLbx TIL that Toyota minivans and SUVs have an option called “Driver Easy Speak”, which broadcasts the driver’s voice through the speakers, making it easier to yell at your kids.
dVWZ TIL Samuel L Jackson first used the word ‘Motherfucker’ because it helped overcome a lifelong stuttering problem.