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TIL while Bob Barker was the host of The Price is Right, he banned fur, wool, and leather prizes, fake display meat products, zoo trips, and cars made by foreign-owned automobile companies. Only fur products remain banned.

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ZpLjo TIL about the landlocked Kingdom of Sikkim, a hereditary monarchy nestled between Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal and India. It's last Queen was San Francisco socialite, Hope Cooke. Lasting from 1642 it ceased to exist in 1975.
788p TIL Sean Connery once stated “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman–although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. ”
6xNQ TIL the way Helsinki survived WW2. In 1944 the USSR began a massive air attack on the city to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.
LVpV TIL a boy scout created a hazardous radioactive site in his backyard while trying to build a nuclear reactor using household items, and was arrested in 2007 for stealing 16 smoke detectors, which contain radioactive material.
x6lYB TIL Betty White was nominated in the 1st Emmy category for female performers in 1950, 1 of the first women to have full creative control of her own TV show, while she was still living at home with her parents, the1st woman to host her own talk show and 1st woman to win an Emmy for game show hosting