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TIL possession of child pornography was legal in Japan up untill 2014

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5VeGp TIL the oldies song 'Earth Angel' was recorded by an unknown band in an actual garage on a single track recorder with no overdubbing. After being played by one radio station in LA, it grew to become one of the most successful and enduring songs of all time
KYlwQ TIL that CBS used to run so many rural-themed TV shows that they were mocked as the “Country Broadcasting System.” To attract a more lucrative audience, after the 1970-71 season they enacted the “rural purge,” canceling many popular rural-themed series and long-running variety shows.
D1DJv TIL that the national bird of Lebanon is the Pheonix
R18w TIL One of Columbus’s explorers was the first person to bring tobacco back into Europe. Because he could blow smoke out of his mouth, he was accused of being the devil and sent to jail for seven years by the Spanish Inquisition.
EgmaX TIL Herb Alpert is still touring at 90 years old, and Biggie Smalls' hit song Hypnotize, samples Alpert's song, Rise.