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TIL that there is a list (updated annually) designed to help instructors avoid using cultural references that their students aren’t old enough to understand.

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awWw0 TIL that during a concert in Ireland, Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth) drunkenly dedicated a song to "the cause" and yelled "give Ireland back to the Irish!". A riot then broke out between the Catholics and Protestants and Megadeath had to travel in a bulletproof bus.
nwXd TIL that there are two libraries in Portugal that use resident bat colonies to protect the books from insects.
kXx4 TIL there is only one disco ball manufacturer in the entire United States. And it’s in Kentucky. And it’s owned by Yolanda.
e0koL TIL Chipotle pioneered a program to recycle their used gloves into trash bags. Their goal was to reduce waste to landfills by 50% by 2020. 95% of food industry gloves go to landfills because no commercial solution existed, until now.
gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.