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TIL that Captain Video, the first American sci-fi TV series, was filmed live 5 to 6 days a week, totaling 1,537 episodes in only 6 years. Only 24 are known to remain.

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xOog TIL Astronaut John Young got really bad flatulence from drinking orange juice during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. Unknowingly, he broadcast this fact to the world. “I have the farts again. I got them again, Charlie.”
g6RX TIL that used condoms were recycled into hair bands in southern China, and were rather successful until doctors raised concerns about contracting warts, AIDS, and other diseases from putting them in your mouth.
4kvRN TIL Coca-Cola’s slogan is “Real Magic.” Coke’s slogan has changed several times over the history of the company.
JDQ4 TIL Ira Glass, host of “This American Life,” has been working at NPR since he started as a 19 year old intern in 1978
4X5Yw TIL two high school students found that despite advertising claims that “the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges,” the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C and one orange juice brand had over three times more. The company were taken to court and fined NZ$217,500.