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TIL Seth MacFarlane once had to show an early episode of Family Guy to a pair of Rabbis because Fox execs thought it was anti-Semitic. Despite the Rabbi’s approval, it wasn’t broadcast for 3 years after it was completed.

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8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"
6mKm TIL that the color purple is the royal color because the dye was so expensive to make: “dye-makers had to crack open the snail’s shell, extract a purple-producing mucus and expose it to sunlight for a precise amount of time. It took as many as 250,000 mollusks to yield just one ounce of usable dye”
OGBOg TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.
LYEQ TIL filming for Rage Against The Machine’s “Sleep Now In The Fire” music video forced the New York Stock Exchange to shut its gates after band members attempted to rush the floor. “For a few minutes, Rage Against the Machine was able to shut down American capitalism,” said the music video director.
6EDJ8 TIL Mice on Earth may like running in wheels, but mice in space apparently take advantage of the microgravity to run in circles by bouncing off the walls.