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TIL about sanewashing, where people try to minimise the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience.

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4XG9J TIL The Tootsie Pop company has a award you can get for counting the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop. The average is 600-800 licks but ranges from 100 to 5,800.
ENpp TIL that the King family does not believe James Earl Ray was responsible for the assassination of MLK, and that King’s wife won a civil suit that implied government involvement.
5PRP TIL “It’s A Wonderful Life” was classified as Communist Propaganda by the F.B.I. because it “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.”
krkW TIL - A body piercer gave himself dermal implants for mounting his iPod Nano to his wrist!
5V08P TIL that the ancient Greeks used butter as a medicine and thought only barbarians ate it. In the Middle Ages, it was sometimes used as lamp oil but was mainly eaten by peasants. It only became popular among the wealthy when the church allowed its consumption during Lent.