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TIL American law used to require the mainstream media to be honest

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78R4b TIL "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" was banned in Malaysia solely because of the title as "Morphin" was determined to be too easily confused with the drug "Morphine"
D1A1j TIL that Häagen-Dazs has no ties to Denmark. Reuben Mattus, its inventor, named the company as such and printed a map of Denmark on the box in the 1960s because he believed that the foreign connection would appeal to American customers.
6EM5l TIL that a Russian car magazine accidentally revealed a top-secret Russian submarine
0xv1 TIL: On August 13, 1966, in response to John Lennon’s “More popular than Jesus” comment, a radio station in Texas held a burning of Beatles merchandise. The next day, the broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging much of their equipment and sending the news director to the hospital.
myKo TIL that Joe Bell, the father of a son that committed suicide from gay bullying, planned to walk across the entire continental United States within 2 years to spread awareness over bullying and its effects, but was killed after 6 months by getting hit by a semi-truck.