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owP8 TIL that for Wayne’s World the studio wanted to use a Guns N’ Roses track instead of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” but Mike Myers fought to feature the Queen song, even threatening to quit the production unless it got in.
Wm08 TIL in 1961, Fidel Castro closed Cuban schools for a whole year and formed teachers into a “literacy army” with the goal to eradicate illiteracy. By the end of the year, 707,212 previously illiterate people had learned how to read.
yQdOa TIL The Phil Donahue show was cancelled by MSNBC three weeks before the invasion of Iraq. Donahue had previously lost support after he expressed his feelings regarding the first Gulf War. General Electric who owned MSNBC at the time was also a major defense contractor removed the show and fired him
WPoX TIL, CBC had a contest to complete the phrase “as Canadian as ____” (by analogy with “as American as apple pie”). The winner: “as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances”
GYOYj TIL that B92, a dissident radio station in Serbia, played Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' on repeat when they were banned from broadcasting news. The song became an anti-Milošević anthem in 1991.