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TIL when the Beach Boys released God Only Knows in 1966, it was taboo to reference "God" in a song's title, and that they were worried that the song may not receive airplay

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LkYy9 TIL about the Bard Prison Initiative, a program providing college education to inmates across various prisons in NY. Nationally, ~80% of inmates will return to prison within 9 years of release. BPI graduates have a recidivism rate of only 4%.
R5a7 TIL there is a 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second camera that can record light as it moves
Y7Mlv TIL that Stanley Kubrick came in secret to the set of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), to advise on lighting.
Wkvj8 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter during the Spanish-American War requesting that his corps be transferred from Cuba after 4,000 soldiers fell ill. The letter was leaked to an AP reporter, which prompted the McKinley administration to bring the unit home to defuse the bad publicity.
loLda TIL that exactly 190 years ago, The Indian Removal Act was passed, allowing U.S. President Andrew Jackson to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their settlements within the borders of extant U.S. states, thereby clearing the way for further white settlement.