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TIL that Neil Young made an album that was so unlike his previous recordings and “not commercial” that he was sued by his record label Geffen Records.

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OoZL4 TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.
E1MW TIL Honda fit was originally called Fitta but was later changed to Fit because Fitta literally meant CUNT in some markets
MeY7W TIL the difference between acronyms and initialisms. FBI is not an acronym but an initialism.
GpN7 TIL in the 19th Century the German-Jewish poet Heine once wrote that “Where one burns books, there one will also burn people.” His works were later burned under Hitler’s rule.
6E9jw TIL that though Thomas Kinkade designed his paintings, the widely sold prints were produced through a semi-industrial process in which prints were factory produced and then manually touched up by low-level apprentices who embellished the prefabricated base.