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TIL Sometimes Air Forces Ceremonially Set Pianos on Fire
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TIL about rescue buoys used in the English channel in WWII. Designed to provide shelter for the pilots or crew of aircraft shot down or forced to make an emergency landing over water, they contained food, cigarettes, liquor, flares and even board games to pass the time.
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TIL Comedy Central originally wanted to remove Timmy from South Park due to the potential controversy over the inclusion of a mentally handicapped character. Matt Stone and Trey Parker pushed to keep the character on the basis that other children in the series treat him equally.
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TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”
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TIL that in 1967 British philosopher Bertrand Russell organized an international war crimes tribunal that unanimously concluded the U.S Government was guilty of genocide against the people of Vietnam.
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TIL the tinkers and tinker's craft (mending utensils with wires) originated from Slovakia in 18th century