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TIL News Giant CNN Censored Coverage of an Arab Spring Uprising in Bahrain.

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x68L1 TIL Steve Martin dated Deana Martin after winning an episode of "The Dating Game" in 1968. They are not related.
V1Nm TIL about Tillie, a hiking dog in Kentucky whose tag simply read ““My name is Tillie. I am not a stray. I live next door. Let’s go for a hike”
vP0yR TIL about Carol Shaw, one of the first female video game designers. She created the incredibly popular Atari 2600 game River Raid, which made her enough money to retire at age 35.
lAd5 TIL in Scotland, a group of students went to a modern arts gallery and left a pineapple in an empty exhibit to see if people would think it was art. When they returned four days later, not only was the pineapple was still there, it had been covered with a glass case
5amr TIL when Ol’ Dirty Bastard recorded his part on Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”,he arrived at the studio 3 hours late and drunk.He’d record 1 line and sleep for an hour.At the video shoot,he told the label he needed clothes.He tried to buy Louis Vuitton luggage with the corporate credit card he was given.