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TIL When the Billy Joel song “Only The Good Die Young” was released as a single, religious groups attempted to censor the song from radio stations, which caused the initially poor sales of the song to skyrocket.

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W7vAL TIL in February of 2013 the Emergency Alert Systems of stations in Montana and Michigan were breached to play a zombie apocalypse warning, using the lines "Civil authorities in your area have reported bodies of the dead are rising from the graves and attacking the living".
ADKdd TIL that from time syphilis first emerged, in the 1500s, countries blamed neighboring and sometimes enemy countries for the outbreak; Italy, Germany & the UK called it ‘the French disease’, the French named it ‘the Neapolitan disease’, and there are numerous other instance (Listed here, paragraph 3)
wVpW TIL that the original British version of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” got cancelled after 136 episodes as ratings dropped due to people not liking Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie being in every episode.
Rx4j TIL of a house burglar who was caught because he took the decision to log on to Facebook using the victim’s computer and forgot to log off.
4kmJ6 TIL that there’s a bus system in Adelaide AU that takes a bus from the roadway to a rail system across town, with beautiful park scenery and tunnels.