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TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."

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GyRG TIL - There has only ever been one successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane, in 1999 during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends.
meNx TIL there are more restored 1950s American cars in Sweden than in the entire USA.
An9g TIL that when people without access to mirrors (or clear water in which to view their reflections) are first exposed to them, their reaction tends to be very negative.
KYX76 TIL that in 1951, the future President of Botswana (then a member of the Botswanan Royal Family) and his wife were exiled to the UK for 5 years, as the South African government disapproved of their interracial marriage and the UK did not want to imperil their access to cheap resources in SA.
E1Lx7 TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research