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TIL The BBC was accused of censorship after refusing to play “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” during the official charts show. The song reached number 2 after the death of Margaret Thatcher.

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L7Ap TIL of the “2suit”, which is a suit designed for sex in space or other weightless environments.
neBLY TIL Paul McCartney was arrested in 1973 for “illegal cultivation” after police found him growing cannabis on his farm in England. He claimed the seeds were from a fan and that he didn’t know what they were.
b67MQ TIL about the Cosquer cave in France. Its only entrance lies 121ft (37m) below the surface of the water, and it has cave drawings of various animals that are estimated to be 27,000 years old.
NorJ TIL the 1902 Saint-Pierre Volcano eruption killed all 35,000 people in the town except one man who survived because he was the worst prisoner and lived in a solitary confinement cell.
J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation