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TIL that in Japan they have an expression to describe the sudden urge to poop when you’re in a book store

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4nNN TIL that after the film Top Gun was released, enlistment into the Navy more than tripled. The Navy even set up recruitment booths inside theaters showing Top Gun.
OXya TIL that the Nazi salute looked almost identical to what was, at the time, the salute to the American flag. The USA changed the salute in 1942 after the Nazis adopted it.
QplL TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and traveled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
k5dm TIL Kanye West once gave his mic to a fan in a wheelchair at a concert
p8WOp TIL Ann Druyan, a member of the team that assembled the Golden Record for the Voyager, recorded her brainwaves to put on it. A few days before, she and Carl Sagan professed their love to each other. So somewhere in space is a golden disc with the recorded brainwaves of someone madly in love.