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TIL The Parental Advisory sticker eventually came into being after Tipper Gore heard her 11-year old daughter listening to Prince’s “Darling Nikki”, causing her to co-found Parents Music Resource Center

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p8OZ TIL Some Paralympic athletes gain an unfair advantage by purposely injuring themselves on areas of their body with no feeling. It’s called “boosting” and the goal is to trick the body into triggering a kind of fight-or-flight response, and in doing so, increase performance.
gMoAW TIL the human womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mt Everest, designed to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time
rNwAW TIL that Hitler never called the Nazi symbol a "swastika" and called it a "hakenkreuz" (hooked/twisted cross) instead. Many Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists have advocated for adopting hakenkreuz in the English language to avoid confusion
woElJ TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.
VWBD TIL that the dancers for Weird Al’s Fat include a guy who was just making a pizza delivery to the studio.