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TIL: In 1982, 3 men in Allentown, PA sat on a billboard for 261 days to win a house. It was to promote the station, WSAN-AM’s format change from country music to nostalgic hits. Instead of promoting the station, the contest became a story that symbolized the economic struggles of the early 1980s.

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6EOaZ TIL In 1979, two tiny silver scrolls were found in a burial chamber southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Dated 400 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scrolls were examined and found to contain the Priestly Benediction, Numbers 6:24-26.
r07x TIL in 1986 to bypass Japanese censorship laws on depictions of sexual intercourse Toshio Maeda created “tentacle sex” leading to the large number of works today with tentacles inplace of male genitals.
E15XP TIL There's a company that takes your DNA sequence and predicts which wine you would enjoy.
rN51 TIL that Brazil once tried to sell an aircraft carrier on eBay
xdr7 TIL Sam Kinison was killed when a drunk driver crossed the median and hit Sam’s vehicle head on. According to a friend, he looked unharmed, then began speaking to no one, saying “I don’t want die.” Then, “But why?” And finally, “Okay, okay, okay.”