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xb8g TIL in 2006, VH1 Classic ran fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief in which viewers could donate $25 to see the music video of their choice. One viewer donated $35, 000. Their choice? ‘99 Luftballoons’. For an hour.
OopJ7 TIL Janis Joplin was bullied by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson in high school. Even in a 1992 interview, 22 years after Janis’ death, he couldn’t stop bragging about it as he implied groping her: ‘… she never wore any panties… from what I understood’
Y78eZ TIL that most of the bodies of climbers that have perished on Mount Everest remain where they died. In fact, climbers now use some of these bodies as landmarks during their climb.
X0prk TIL in 1973, a Harvard astrophysicist suggested that we won't discover more advanced civilizations because they don't want us to find them and have the technology to ensure we never do. They have also set aside our planet as a zoo wherein they can observe us. He coined this idea the Zoo Hypothesis.
OEde TIL in 1994, the Surgeon General of the U.S. was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”