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TIL When the Rolling Stones left Decca to start their own record label, Decca insisted that the Stones owed them one more song before they were allowed to leave. That incensed Mick Jagger who recorded the song C*cksucker Blues, a song with explicit references to fellatio, anal sex and bestiality

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ReD4 TIL Lockheed Skunk works produced the first pair of working stealth aircraft despite not even being invited to compete. Everybody else besides Northrop failed or gave up, but Lockheed managed to build a pair of working stealth aircraft for only $35 million by using leftover parts from other programs
mxLjy TIL that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865
xVEao TIL that in one night in 1943, the Danish Resistance organized the escape of over 90% of Denmarks Jews to Sweden. That means around 7000 of Denmarks Jews escaped, with only about 500 being captured
ONg TIL that in a 2008 survey 62% of Egyptian men freely admited perpetrating sexual harassment, with 98% of foreign women claiming they had experienced harassment
5Yv8Q TIL the default wallpaper for Windows XP is actually a real film photograph taken in California, NOT a photoshopped image. It was hand-delivered by the photographer to Microsoft in Seattle and is considered the most viewed photograph in the world.