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TIL Vienna Philharmonic did not allow female musicians to join until 1997

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b9eA4 TIL that in trial accusing Judas Priest of subliminal messages in their songs that made two young men commit suicide, the band argued that if you play speech backwards some of it will seem to make sense, so they played their album backwards and heard ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Help me keep a job’
KOKr9 TIL Late in his life, Charles Lindbergh had affairs that produced three children by a German woman and two children by her sister. These children only found out who their father was using DNA testing after his death.
BgpVb TIL After the massive success of their original 1969 cartoon, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. went down a rabbit hole and spent the next decade or so ripping off their own ‘Scooby formula’ to produce a TON of hysterically weird Scooby-doo clones.
Lw10 TIL that a U.S. F-22 Raptor was able to fly next to an Iranian F-4 Phantom with out it knowing, and told the pilot to go home.
QXok TIL that, when Charles DeGaulle ordered the removal of U.S. Troops from France in 1966, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked if that included the 60,000+ American Soldiers buried there from the first two world wars. An embarrassed DeGaulle never clarified the point. (Happy Memorial Day)