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YdWx TIL that when Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, he didn’t attend the ceremony. He was taking a nap after watching cartoons with his daughter
1Awd TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”
RvJ4 TIL that a memorial tree planted in memory of George Harrison was killed by beetles.
1adWX TIL: Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy and insecure. Her socialite mother teased her about her appearance by calling her "Granny." Teddy Roosevelt's wife Edith said, "She is very plain, her mouth and teeth have no future."
mx6yy TIL that in ancient Greece, the first century BC, an iron statue of a queen was suspended in mid-air in her tomb using magnetism