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TIL About 'Eden' a reality show that aired for about a month on the UK's Channel 4. Cancelled after only a few episodes the show continued 'filming' for almost a year without telling the dwindling contestants the show had actually been cancelled.

0wx95 TIL that when Patton invaded Germany, Marlene Dietrich accompanied him. When asked why she would be at the front lines, she replied "out of decency". Billy Wilder noted she was at the front more often than Eisenhower.
Xd48 TIL that in 2005 a Boeing engineer known as Mr. Hands died after receiving anal from a horse and subsequently rupturing his colon back before bestiality was a felony in Washington state
OV8R TIL that a 1998 HIV outbreak in the porn industry started on the set of “The World’s Biggest Anal GangBang”
neZeB TIL Led Zeppelin knowingly copied the song "You Need Love" in "Whole Lotta Love", but the band considered it "so far away in time and influence" that they decided they could just get away with plagiarism.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.