› added 2 weeks ago

7

TIL that in 2019, the satirical series “South Park” released an episode entitled ‘Band in China’, mocking the Chinese government’s harsh censorship and Hollywood’s attempt to avoid it. As a result, South Park was banned in china.

Read more hollywoodreporter.com

via reddit.com

R7rG4 TIL about the Hunger Plan developed by Nazi Germany during World War II, which entailed the death by starvation of about 30 millions of "racially inferior" Slavs following the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. It led to the starvation of over 4 million citizens of the USSR between 1941-44.
GANwj TIL of Richard Lancelyn Green. The world's leading expert on Sherlock Holms who was found dead in mysterious circumstances after trying to stop Arthur Connan Doyle's letters being exported from the UK
8Y7a TIL that a man who had previously plotted to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was executed on the same day of the 1995 bombing. He spent his last hours alive watching coverage of the explosion on TV.
rRm81 TIL Before he became a founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin established one of America’s first volunteer fire departments.
pY0bO TIL Unborn Babies Use Genes From Dad to “Remote-Control” Mothers for Extra Food