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TIL that the creator of VeggieTales mother forbade two things on the show 1. They could not display Jesus as a Vegetable 2. The Veggies can have no redemptive relationship with God

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e0YW4 TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
ZbRB TIL 10 days into the shoot for The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen suffered a reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore; the powder he breathed in daily as it was applied had coated his lungs. Ebsen was hospitalized in critical condition. He was later put in an iron lung.
jNA6E TIL Oprah had a brother who said that she never supported him financially because he was gay. He died of AIDS in 1989.
VMyWk TIL the Inka never developed writing but instead had a system of tying knots called khipu in which the color, direction and structure of the knots communicated different information. While most of it is numerical, fully cracking the code reveal a phonetic khipu alphabet with records of history.
N0xQ TIL That there is a 5 dollar fine for anyone on staff at the Top Gun school who quotes the movie