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TIL that the first time the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was broadcast on American television the first 40 minutes was not shown, because the football game that preceded it went into overtime.

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4XRnN TIL the Catholic Church has accepted Darwinian evolution as compatible with Christianity since 1950.
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
XEvV8 TIL a whale (188 decibels) is louder than the Space shuttle launching (160 decibels).
wVd1 TIL Cavities can be contagious
XoaQ TIL that after being wronged by the government in the late 1990s, a citizen decided to heavily modify a bulldozer, called it the “Killdozer”, and went on a rampage.