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TIL: On Full House Bob Saget, John Stamos & Dave Coulier often got in trouble for "adult humor" in front of their child co-stars and got busted doing whip its off screen with 15 cans of Redi Whip while impatiently waiting for the girls to finish shooting a scene.

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XExVR TIL of accidental Stereo Sound. Where by Two recorders with microphones in different positions captured both left and right audio of an artist’s recording session. Decades later these recordings were then merged together to give stereo sound, pre-dating true stereophonic sound by a good 20 years
ZpGlQ TIL Tsukuba Syndrome, a phenomenon where researchers in Tsukuba Science City, a research hub northeast of Tokyo, committed suicide in the 1970s-80s. The suicide rate was more than twice that of the general population. In late 1985, three people from the same lab took their lives within a month.
Y77er TIL about the Haber–Bosch process which allows for the creation of ammonia easily. Which is one of the key factors in the massively increased agriculture ability of the modern era as the ammonia is often used in fertiliser.
OwRL TIL at birth Muhammad Ali was named for Cassius Clay, a Kentucky Congressman of the 19th century who fought to abolish slavery and was named by Lincoln as the US Ambassador to Russia where he gained Russian support for the Union.
xYEB TIL: In 1972 a blizzard dropped as much as 26 feet of snow over Iran, killing 4000 people and covering an area the size of Wisconsin