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TIL In 1972 Led Zeppelin were forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refused to let them off the plane.

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vPmKK TIL that unlike motherhood, fatherhood is not mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human rights.
bp5Z TIL The uniforms worn by the Alliance on Firefly are leftover costumes from Starship Troopers.
X0Ap6 TIL Jimmy Carter and his administration despite many attempts failed to locate a downed twinengine plane over Africa. The CIA contacted a woman in California who claimed to have supernatural capabilities. She went in a trance and wrote down latitudes and longitudes that located the plane.
wodRo TIL sharks are older than the Rings of Saturn
5YVJr Characterized by their large green bodies and beak-like teeth, bumphead parrotfish can be found near the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. These large corallivores use their mighty teeth to grind up the hard exterior of coral in search of the small creatures living inside. If you've ever visited a beach in these regions, you've probably relaxed on the sandy remnants of this coral-based diet. In other words, that beach is full of crap! National Geographic grantee Mikayla Wujec fills us in in this episode of Today I Learned.