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TIL that in 1942 the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was banned by BBC during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.

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Yjbd TIL that “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” had its US premiere in Yonkers, NY to an audience of high school students, and a bunch of them got offended and walked out.
LkDKm TIL - When Mount Everest was measured in 1854 the exact value was 29,000 feet. Despite being accurate, Andrew Waugh published the value as 29,002 feet to avoid the public assuming it was merely a rounded estimate. Thus he was known as "the first man to put 2 feet on top of Everest".
9Wlp TIL: It took 200,000 years to bring 1st billion people on Earth, 100 more years to bring 2nd billion and now we add 1 billion people to this planet every 12 years.
6E6mW TIL of Jack Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer. After murdering an 18-year-old girl, he got a life sentence, but became an author and campaigned to get himself released after just 15 years. He then became a reporter, reporting on his own crimes as he proceeded to kill at least 9 more people.
Ap9d TIL that in 1970 due to a wheat production quota dispute between a Farming family in west Australia and the Government, the family declared their land to be independent from Australia and created a legal micro-nation called the Principality of Hutt River which exists till today.