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TIL Mexico issued a ban known as "Avandarazo" in response to the Festival de Avándaro, forbidding the recording of Rock music by national groups, the prohibition of its sales in retail stores, live rock concerts and airplay of rock songs. The ban lasted for many years, gradually lifted in the 1980s.

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QXEM TIL Singer Tom Waits has a song called “The Fall of Troy”, and Post-hardcore band “The Fall of Troy” have a song called “Tom Waits”
7r5Kx Today I Learned the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff resulted in the loss of 9,400 German citizens. This makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking, however it is a rather unknown event due to being overshadowed by all the news of WW2 ending around the same time.
6EpMl TIL that one of the rarest fish in the world is the Devils Hole Pupfish. They are only found in Devils Hole a water filled cavern in Nevada and are critically endangered with only 136 fish left in the wild.
KOgvG TIL "A rule of thumb is that if you see the tsunami, it is too late to outrun it. Even small tsunamis (for example, 6 feet in height) are associated with extremely strong currents, capable of knocking someone off their feet," writes United States Geological Survey (USGS).
A6Za TIL: the Indian state of Nagaland is over 75% baptist, a percentage higher than Texas or Mississippi, making it ‘the most baptist state in the world’.