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TIL During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson threatened CBS News that if it didn’t ‘cleaned up its act,’ after showing US Marines burning villages, the White House would 'go public’ with the reporter’s alleged “communist ties.”

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9mYG TIL of David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said “Welcome to the camp of a cannibal.”
x6vpb TIL that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind had a different English dub back in the 80s called "Warriors of the Wind" and it was incredibly shortened. It was apparently so bad that Hayao Miyazaki adopted a "no cuts" clause for future English releases of Studio Ghibli films.
N7xGe TIL about "New Sincerity" a term referring to the general shift away from cynicism and irony in popular culture.
wLek1 TIL there is a group of scientists that believe a virus came to earth on the back of a meteor and then infected a group of squid which then evolved into octopuses.
xVdO5 TIL Paper Strength is measured in Kilometers, as a way to describe if a sheet of that paper measured that long would be vertically hung, it would tear on its own weight. That is to say, if a paper has strength of 14 Kilometers, a 14 Km long sheet would have to be vertically hung for it to tear.