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TIL that Thomas Jefferson was educated and tolerant about Islam, and forsaw Muslims running for president.

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R7P14 TIL in 72, after Led Zeppelin had released 4 platinum albums, a festival mgr. wrote manager Peter Grant requesting a booking of "Led Zeppelin and his backing group." Grant replied by taking out a full page ad in a music industry publication in the form of a letter captioned, "Mr. Zeppelin regrets."
7rD1b TIL NASA used IQ tests for determining which applicants will ultimately become astronauts
16ZjX TIL that the song "My Way" by Frank Sinatra is banned is most karaoke bars in the Philippines due to a social phenomenon called the "My Way Killings."
v1eVB TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak, on September 11, 2001. Shot and killed in Brooklyn, his murder is the only one recorded in NYC that day apart from the 9/11 attacks, and his death remains unsolved.
9w0Or TIL of Savitri Devi, a french born greek-italian hindu and ardent nazi who tried to combine hinduism and nazism and proclaimed Hitler to be an avatar of Vishnu. She was also an animals rights activist who believed that people who don't respect animals and nature "should be executed"