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TIL after making some anti-Semitic comments, Lou Reed was asked if he was Jewish, to which he replied: “Of course, aren’t all the best people?” However, when asked by journalist Lester Bangs about... (www.clashmusic.com)

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Original Title: TIL after making some anti-Semitic comments, Lou Reed was asked if he was Jewish, to which he replied: “Of course, aren’t all the best people?” However, when asked by journalist Lester Bangs about how his songs relate to being Jewish, Reed contrarily answered that he didn’t know any Jewish people.

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TIL that when Hideki Tojo was given new dentures, the message ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ had been secretly drilled into them (www.newsreview.com)

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Today I learned that President Glover Cleveland had a secret surgery removing a tumor in his mouth on a yacht because he worried that news of him having cancer would effect the stock market. (www.npr.org)

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TIL that the UK has a wild population of 10-15,000 yellow tailed scorpions. They live in Sheerness Dockyards in Kent and came over in shipments of Italian masonry in the 1800's. (naturenook.co.uk)

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TIL that the myth of carrots improving your eyesight and helping you see in the dark was WWII propaganda (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL Chris Hemsworth earned just $150,000 for his first appearance as Thor and the film brought in nearly $450 million globally (finance.yahoo.com)

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TIL about the street gang, the Almighty G*ylords. They are one of Chicago's oldest street gangs, have been suspected of a variety of criminal enterprises and at their peak had 1,500 members. (wikipedia.org)

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TIL the controversial diamond Koh-i-Noor has a sister diamond called Daria-i-Noor, which is part of the Iranian Crown Jewels (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL John Hawkins was the first Englishman to profit off of the triangle trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Harkins' journeys also brought the sweet potato and tobacco to England. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of Bill Millin, a Canadian musician who played bagpipes while under fire at Sword Beach during D-Day. He survived the war and died at the age of 88 in 2010. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that the Japanese have a word "Busshu-suru" which translates as "To do the Bush thing" meaning "to vomit" referring to the time when George H.W. Bush' vomited in Japan's prime minister's lap. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL In 1938, Orson Welles on Halloween night, broadcast live an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel War of the Worlds over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convin... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL In 1938, Orson Welles on Halloween night, broadcast live an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel War of the Worlds over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was really taking place.

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TIL that photos from the 1950's to the 1980's faded because of the switch to wood-based paper. (www.loc.gov)

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TIL that Apple's infamous "1984" ad for the Macintosh computer was secretly aired once on local television in Twin Falls, Idaho in December 1983, a month before its national premier during Super B... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL that Apple's infamous "1984" ad for the Macintosh computer was secretly aired once on local television in Twin Falls, Idaho in December 1983, a month before its national premier during Super Bowl XVIII. This allowed it to qualify for the 1984 Clio advertising awards.

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TIL McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwich has its own mascot, Phil A O'Fish (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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TIL that Chicago--AKA "The Windy City"--is not even in the top 11 windiest cities in America and isn't even especially windy. (www.weatherstationadvisor.com)

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TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may... (arstechnica.com)

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Original Title: TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may take a decade.

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TIL the first Got Milk? commercial, “Aaron Burr,” was directed by Michael Bay. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that the first British person into space was cosmonaut Helen Sharman in 1991 aboard a Soviet Soyuz mission to the Mir space station. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Chevron created Saudi Aramco. (www.britannica.com)

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TIL that a blue moon happens when a full moon appears multiple times in a month and not when the moon becomes blue (www.space.com)

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TIL: Jamaican culture was influenced by Indian immigrants and that's where Rastafarianism comes from. Indians introduced curry, cannabis and even dreadlocks to Jamaica. (kb.osu.edu)

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TIL that In 2011, a Chinese construction company called Broad Sustainable Building built a 30-story hotel called the T30 in just 15 days in the city of Hunan. See comments for the rest. (www.eco-business.com)

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TIL Until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, it was nearly impossible for a single woman to get a credit card without a male cosigner. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL about Len Koenecke, a Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder who died in 1935 from a blow to the head when he tried to seize control of an airplane (en.wikipedia.org)

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