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TIL: Lulu (To Sir With Love) had a BBC-TV show in 1968. Her guest once was Jimi Hendrix. He was to perform Hey Joe, and she would join in. Earlier that day the group Cream announced they had broke up. Jimi switched midstream, live on TV, to Sunshine of Your Love. He was banned from BBC-TV.

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xVN9w TIL that the cartoon superhero spoof, ambiguously gay duo, one of Robert Smigel's cartoon sketches for TV Funhouse and shown on Saturday Night Live, was voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell
ZZ7B TIL the Eiffel Tower’s construction permit required it to be removed 20 years after it was completed (1909).
6EnQ8 TIL that a Japanese company wanted to build an office building on a plot of land it owned, while another company had permits to build a highway through the same plot. The companies compromised by building a 16-story office building and putting the highway on floors 5-7.
N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here:
rRM4e TIL about "Little Bastard.” The cursed customized Porsche 550 Spyder, made famous in the 1955 fatal crash of James Dean. The car mysteriously disappeared in 1960.