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TIL that the text of U2's song 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' was written by Salman Rushdie and sent to Bono for the music

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QJxZa TIL the first pro-gay film in the world was a 1919 German film called “Different from the Others”. It was created as a protest against German laws that criminalised homosexuality. The Nazis destroyed most prints of the film, and only one known copy has survived.
v1M4D TIL that Choco Taco is created by Klondike.
1amO TIL that the screeching noise you get from scraping your fingernails against a chalkboard is uncomfortable because it is similar to a primate warning call and triggers a fight or flight response.
PQ0J TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
AD1L4 TIL that in Singapore, there is a drink known as a "Michael Jackson", made from white soy milk and black jelly.