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TIL Nirvana's Kurt Cobain made out with his bandmates on live TV "just to spite homophobes."

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BgbKL TIL The Spanish spoken in Mexico is noticeably different to the Spanish spoken in Spain in terms of syntax and vocabulary.
aw6oo TIL the 90s sketch comedy show “In Living Color” drew away 22% of Super Bowl XXVI’s viewers during its halftime show by doing a special live episode of their own, which is why subsequent Super Bowls got A-List performers and dropped the previous themed marching band format.
do8d TIL Emily Dickinson instructed her sister to burn all her letters after her death. Her sister obeyed but discovered 40 notebooks that she received no instruction on. Inside were the poems that gained Dickinson’s posthumous fame today.
7KOL TIL that airplane windows were once square until 3 fatal crashes in the 50’s were caused by the windows. Corners are weak points(4 on a window) and stress/pressure can cause these points to crack
E1DrX TIL one of the oldest statues in Bern, Switzerland is of a guy eating babies, and nobody really knows why it’s there.