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TIL Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson made booby traps from live ammunition while he was still at boarding school

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1Z0r TIL at least 310 schools in the U.S. are receiving tens of millions of dollars in public funding through school voucher programs to teach creationism.
Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.
vP10r TIL of the Dew Drop Inn. It was a former New Orleans nightclub known for catering to Black audiences during the segregation era. Singers such as Ray Charles, James Brown, and Earl King once performed there. The club allowed white patrons and thus was sometimes raided for violating Jim Crow laws.
VBwe4 TIL during the US Invasion of Somalia (Operation Restore Hope) Navy SEALs swam ashore only to be surrounded by reporters who had been tipped off of the coming invasion by a Lieutenant General in a public briefing the day before
odoL TIL that when Friends Debuted 20 Years Ago, People Magazine Gave It a D+ rating, and Time magazine called the cast “dysfunctional morons”