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TIL in 1977 Billy Joel’s poorly-performing single “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by WSOU-FM, affiliated with Seton Hall University, for its supposed anti-Catholic themes. Other dioceses then started putting pressure on local stations to ban it. As a result of the controversy, sales skyrocketed

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J1yGv TIL The classic Chinese takeout box was originally designed for holding oysters, and later honey. Early patents are from the late 1800s and association with Chinese food came with the rise of takeout in Post-WW2 United States.
rRNrW TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.
nW81Y TIL that the world's oldest known living organism is a colony of quaking aspen trees in Utah named Pando. Estimated to be around 80,000 years old, Pando covers an area of 106 acres and consists of over 40,000 individual trees, all connected by a single root system.
N7GBb TIL Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, ended up in front of the White House drunk and in his underwear because he wanted to go get pizza. After being escorted back to the Blair House and getting his pizza, Yeltsin tried to do it again the next night.
mxkXY TIL that an American army doctor who served in Vietnam returned an arm he’d amputated to its owner, a Vietnamese soldier, 47 years after he took it as a souvenir of a good deed. They met each other’s children and grandchildren and joked about which of them had been better looking back in the war.