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TIL that birds can 'see' magnetic fields

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awQ0M TIL that when Bill Withers debuted with “Ain’t no Sunshine” in 1971, he refused to leave his job as an assembler in a factory, believing that the music business was a fickle industry
wXM TIL that there’s a museum in Europe that displays only objects that were meaningful to heartbroken exes.
a84d9 TIL that “Casablanca” was banned in Ireland upon release because its negative depictions of Nazis jeopardized Irish neutrality. When it was first released in Germany in 1952, it was 25 minutes shorter because it removed all references to Nazis and WWII.
LkYkQ TIL tattoos in Japan (Irezumi) were banned from 1868-1948. Traditional Japanese tattoos were associated with the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) as they were used to mark the skin of outlaws. To this day they retain a stigma of criminality and many businesses still ban customers with tattoos.
VBmEQ TIL Babe Pig in the City was originally rated PG & featured a number of dark deleted scenes