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TIL Chevy Chase dropped the n-word on the set of Community.

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Adk4 TIL Canadian Industrial band “Skinny Puppy” demanded $666,000 in royalties from the US Defense Dept. after learning that the US military used their music to torture prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
5VJX8 TIL that the counterpart to a giant painted mural in Biddeford, Maine [depicting a young boy making a phone call] is located in Slemani, Iraq. The project, facilitated by fifth-grade students from both countries, aimed to encourage cross-cultural bridge-building as a means of empathy and friendship.
Bg64e TIL that in 1983, scientists created a machine that temporarily allowed people to see new colors outside of the regular color space.
OopDY TIL 8% of modern Spanish words are Arabic in origin, entering Spanish usage during Muslim rule in the southern Iberian peninsula in 711-1492 AD. These loan words often begin with with "a-" or "al" (e.g., almuerzo, aceite, arroz, azul) because these sounds mark a definitive noun in Arabic.
Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”