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TIL Bear, a Canadian bestiality novel, won a prestigious literary award and was a bestseller

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0Bwy TIL in 1977 Billy Joel’s poorly-performing single “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by WSOU-FM, affiliated with Seton Hall University, for its supposed anti-Catholic themes. Other dioceses then started putting pressure on local stations to ban it. As a result of the controversy, sales skyrocketed
D1Bg TIL the unique taste of NYC pizza is attributed to the city’s water
pYmYe TIL that a Pittsburgh TV producer once labeled Tom Brady as a “known cheater”
4k8Y5 TIL Banana peels are edible.
epK6E TIL the word 'genericisation', when a brand name and the product have become so common and popular that it instead comes to represent the entire product category. E.g. Hoover, Bacardi, Tannoy