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TIL that AC/DC once changed the name on their tour bus to “Singers for Christ” in order to pass through Tipper Gore’s “Moral Majority” protest on the way to a gig in Florida.

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gMvYX TIL the U.S. Air Force pays for those military fly over during sporting events to inspire a future generation. The money comes out of their training budget. In 2011 the Air Force did a fly over at the Super Bowl even though the roof was closed.
J1Mkk TIL The Hardy Tree in London’s St. Pancras churchyard is named for Thomas Hardy. The Victorian writer worked at the burial ground in the 1860s and rearranged tombstones around the base of an ash tree to make room for a railway expansion.
gMQab TIL "Comrade Kim goes Flying" is North Korea’s first “girl power” movie and it was screened at numerous film festivals in 2014. The story of coal miner, her dream of becoming a trapeze artist is crushed by an arrogant trapeze star who believes miners belong underground and not in the air
mxNNv TIL that an anonymous biologist managed to get a fake scientific research paper accepted into four supposedly peer-reviewed science journals, to expose the problem of predatory journals. He based the paper on a notoriously bad Star Trek episode where characters turned into weird amphibian-people.
D14Ar TIL Boston Red Sox OF Mookie Betts bowled a perfect 300 at the World Series of Bowling - in the same week he was awarded an MLB Gold Glove.