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TIL that the original Village People line up was recruited using an ad which read: “Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache.”

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a841J TIL In 1985 a private radiotherapy clinic in Brazil was abandoned, leaving behind a radiation source with 100 grams of Cesium-137. Thieves stole the container in 1987. Over 200 people were contaminated and 4 people died after it was broken into (and the glowing blue dust was spread around)
Jv8v TIL that Chinese security forces killed a large number of Uyghur dissidents in a July 2014 incident, 96 according to the Chinese and 2,000 according to the Uyghurs, and the Chinese government suppressed any independent reporting of it
LkNNp TIL of Mary Blagg--an early 20th-century astronomer who pioneered the field of lunar nomenclature. She was tasked with naming every discernible feature on the moon, leading her to create a list detailing thousands upon thousands of craters, fissures, and gullies along its surface.
D1PxY TIL John Lennon's comment 'More popular than Jesus' created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
4kAd5 TIL During the 1966-1976 Irish Bank Strikes, the Irish economy essentially continued business as usual as a result of the trust and conversational personal contact circulating across local communities through the pubs.