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TIL that more than 16 million official U.S. military personnel records were destroyed when the sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center caught fire in 1973. The archive did not have a sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or firewalls

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OOb6 TIL that “Oops! I Did It Again” and “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears have been used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
W7xjo TIL that that in 1982, during the 80's Satanic Panic, Rep. Robert Dornan introduced a bill that would forbid backward messages on music albums. It failed to pass.
9YR6m TIL about the saukele, a Kazakh traditional bridal headdress. Conical in shape and very expensive, it had to be custom made by a jeweler. Each was decorated with jeweled/beaded pendants and had a veil in front and an embroidered strip hanging down the back.
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neWVd TIL the theme song for Saved by the Bell was written by composer Scott Gayle against the implicit instructions of Peter Engel. Though Engel had not been able to keep the show from being named Saved by the Bell, he was determined to prevent the phrase from showing up in the theme.