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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs

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0wn41 TIL Nirvana considered making a video for All Apologies that featured Kurt Cobain playing Lee Harvey Oswald, singing to the camera and making a pie in the book depository. Cobain would then throw the pie out the window, which would hit Kennedy (played by Grohl or Novoselic) in the back of the head.
EgWwP TIL: After suing Facebook for deleting his profile, Jason Crawford (from Georgia, USA) was awarded $52K USD.
xZp7 TIL in 2002 Iraq submitted a full 11,800 page report to the UN security council stating they had no WMDs, 8000 pages of which were secretly removed by US officials - the fact the report was incomplete was later used to justify the invasion of Iraq
5VYZR TIL about John List, who murdered his whole family in 1971 and eluded capture for 18 years, until his story was broadcast on America’s Most Wanted in 1989.
nW5dd TIL that in 4 states (California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.) there is no minimum age limit for getting married.