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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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1WMO TIL The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan was intended for Kokura, but the pilot’s view of the target in Kokura was obscured by a cloud.
w05J TIL that Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s official title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
9YPxG TIL that the very first trench coat ever invented was by Burberry and was made strictly for crawling and walking through trenches in WWI
0Aa5 TIL that when the English colonial government in Dehli, India put a bounty on cobras to eliminate them from the city, it resulted in a cobra population boom. The bounty was greater than the cost of breeding a cobra, and the citizens were breeding them to sell to the government.
Y6NW TIL there exists a book and Broadway play adaptation of The Big Lebowski melded with the writing style of William Shakespeare, titled “Two Gentlemen of Lebowski”.