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TIL when Clear Channel Communications gave a list of songs to it’s radio stations suggesting them not to play them after the 9/11 attacks, every Rage Against the Machine song was included.

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exVb TIL the Proboscis monkey’s Malay name means Dutch Monkey because locals remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses.
yVr48 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".
7rrbL By switching off a genetic variant linked to increased risk of asthma.
vJDB TIL of Franz Stigler, a German ace fighter pilot who risked his life to spare and then save the lives of 9 Americans by escorting their injured B-17 bomber out of Germany. The incident would later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.”
6EkDJ TIL a sea lion named Rhonda once escaped from an urban zoo in Providence, RI and was never recovered. She made her way through a few park lakes, traveled over two miles on land, scaled small walls and got to a river that flowed into a bay and eventually the ocean.