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TIL that 258 commercial radio stations in the UK missed the announcement of the death of the Queen Mother, due to a technical glitch.

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NXpeP TIL the US Treasury confirmed that penny press souvenir machines do not violate Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code on mutilation of currency
mxYXv TIL That during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the island of Ni'ihau and with the help of Japanese-speaking residents he terrorized the island before being killed.
e0015 TIL Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragonball Z, got so angry at the movie adaptation Dragonball Evolution that he revived the series over 15 years after it originally ended.
MeNOA TIL that the last surviving member of a species is called and Endling
E1lkV TIL The legendary band Dread Zeppelin was, for all intents and purposes dissolved and without its signature lead singer, Tortelvis, and they only reformed because INXS were big fans and wanted them to open their US shows in 1993.