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TIL Gwen Stefani wrote "Hollaback Girl" in response to Courtney Love calling her a cheerleader in an interview

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P18kn TIL that once BBC traumatized a group of monkeys by sending in a dead baby monkey. RIP spy monkey
KOLmG TIL the Olympic tradition of running the torch from Olympia to the host city first started at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
rRdBM TIL in 1918 Russia, the Romanov family were brutally executed (with an even more disturbing burial). The Romanov children survived the initial spray of bullets and attack with bayonets because their clothes were lined with more about 1.3kg diamonds and gemstones each, as an improvised armour.
XEjDD TIL John Lennon invited Yoko Ono to visit when his wife was away on holiday. When she returned, Ono was wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."
m1NZo TIL Apollo 11's Solar Wind Composition Experiment consisted of an aluminium foil sheet fixed to a pole facing the Sun. Studied by Swiss physicist Johannes Geiss, it was the only non-American experiment to be part of the mission and carried out on every moon landing