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TIL "Pride (In the Name of Love)," U2's tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., was originally about Ronald Reagan

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8QG4 TIL the phrase “cut off your nose to spite your face” refers to a group of 9th century nuns who, to avoid being raped by Viking invaders, sliced off their noses and upper lips, thus exposing the teeth and gums. It kept them from being raped - but not from being burned alive.
kLM1 TIL the original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book entitled “Gump and Co.” During the book he crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Operation Desert Storm.
OGDee TIL that the European Commission produced a comic in 1998 called "The raspberry ice cream war" intended to educate children on the benefits of the EU. British authorities decided to pulp 75000 copies, deciding the comic was "inappropriate" and "factually inaccurate"
LkkBV TIL: The country of Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo mistakenly thought he landed in Mogadishu, Somalia and then misspelled the name of the city
rer4 TIL Leonard Nimoy photographed a book full of full figured women