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TIL The US show COPS filmed one episode in Soviet Russia

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LbX9 TIL that John F. Kennedy’s grandmother not only outlived him, but was never told about her grandson’s assassination.
AMln TIL people with short stature have a lower chance of getting cancer due to simply having less cells, thus statistically lowering the odds of mutation.
oBvQo TIL When Alvin "tex" Johnston was told to "sell" Boeing's new 707 jet liner to a crowd of business men and reporters in 1955, he rolled the aircraft inverted in a 1 G maneuver called a barrel roll without the knowledge of the companies president.
4XrNw TIL The movie “Dogma” is not available digitally, in part, because the Catholic League threatened a boycott of Disney.
6Ew7X TIL that the lyric "Annie, are you OK?" from the Michael Jackson song "Smooth Criminal" actually stems from American CPR training, in which students practise on their unresponsive plastic patient, CPR Annie who’s face was molded after a unknown girl who drowned in Paris.