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TIL the song “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison was originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl”, but was changed to “make it more palatable for radio stations”

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gM7yb Today I learned that a German company sold radioactive toothpaste containing thorium until the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Source in German)
BrJQb TIL that Queen Elizabeth II has seen 13 different UK Prime Ministers come into power, with the first one being Winston Churchill.
WkLod TIL about Guy Tyler, who made hundreds of audio recordings of Native American languages. They provide an archive of languages in danger of being lost to erasure of native culture, as well as helped protect the sacred site at Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump [link to audio in comments].
YpO1W TIL there was a handheld video game called Bin Laden vs. USA. You could either play as the US and try to shoot down the planes or as Al Qaeda and fly your planes into the World Trade Center.
5jGD TIL : 30 years ago you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today, it’s down to 3-4 minutes