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TIL in Fucking, Austria, after the residents voted against changing the Town’s name, the mayor stated “Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”

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4MvJ TIL Haydn wrote a Symphony where each player leaves during the course of the finale leaving only 2 violinists. The song was wrote as a protest to his boss the Prince who refused the players time off to see their families.
ZpLbG TIL two brown bears escaped from their enclosure at a wildlife park in England & headed straight for a staff-only food storage area. The bears then indulged in a variety of snacks including a week's worth of honey before they returned to their enclosures within an hour. Both "passed out" afterwards.
KvmQ TIL that in 1991 Canada’s Prince of Pot Marc Emery was given one year probation for selling copies of 2 Live Crew’s rap CD As Nasty As They Wanna Be which had been deemed obscene and banned in Ontario, CANADA.
8o0K TIL in 2008, high school football coach Kris Hogan got many of the fans of his team to cheer for and support the other team because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and did not have fans of their own
ZpkaQ TIL the 1980s cartoon "The Littles", is not based on Mary Norton's book series "The Borrowers" but John Peterson's book series, also titled "The Littles", which has a very similar premise