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TIL Sesame Street briefly featured a muppet named Don Music, a composer who frequently banged his head against his piano. After numerous complaints from parents that children were copying his behaviour, the character was retired

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9Yn1X TIL The University of New Hampshire has a gallery on Betty and Barney Hill, known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961. The exhibit features aliens depicted in a sculpture and drawings, the dress Betty wore, notebooks, photographs, and documents about the abduction
nkmr TIL after a Florida Highway Patrol Officer ticketed a Miami cop for driving in excess of 120MPH on his way to an off-duty job, she was relentlessly harassed by other officers, including finding out that her driver’s license info had been accessed by 88 officers from 25 agencies over three months.
X0AaE TIL about the Toyota War, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Chad–Libya border. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Hilux and the Land Cruiser, used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans
VBJVm TIL That the English language recipe for Guacamole was presented by...a pirate
R7jd8 TIL that Jews were forbidden by the Rabbinate from walking under the Arch of Titus in Rome, which was built in 81 AD to commemorate the Roman victory in the first Jewish–Roman War in Judea. The ban was lifted in 1948 with the establishment of the state of Israel.