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TIL the show Portlandia was banned from a feminist bookstore in Portland for their skits. They claimed that Fred Armisen's dressing as a woman was derogatory mockery towards trans women. They're no longer welcome to film in the location.

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8a5vZ TIL that Navajo language was used in the WWII by the U.S. Armed Forces in the Pacific to encrypt communications. They simply had Navajo Indians talking to each other, and since the language is exceedingly complex and has no written form, not a single person in Japan knew anything about it.
gMM6b TIL At the height of the siege of Sarajevo in 1994, Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson and his band decided to smuggle themselves into the city and give a concert despite constant shelling and sniper-fire. When their arranged UN heli-transport bailed, they hitched a hike in the back of a truck.
0w9ay TIL that the flag on the moon was bought from a nearby Sears
nWa5o TIL that Germany's first post WWII Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, invented among other things a soy sausage during WWI
v150r TIL eagles are good swimmers, but may drown while dragging heavier prey to shore. Not because they can't let go, but because they think the prey is worth it.