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TIL the FBI spent 30 months investigating the song Louie, Louie because the lyrics were thought to be dirty. Agents listened to the record at different speeds, interviewed band members, and even researched analyses made by teenagers who claimed to know the song’s “true meaning.”

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D16lV TIL that the highest elevation of the city of Berlin, the Teufelsberg (Devil‘s Mountain), is not of natural origin. The 260ft tall mountain consists of the rubble and remains of the town after the bombing at the end of World War 2.
yQprv TIL a small-scale nuclear war with each side using 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs would disrupt the global climate for a decade. The result would be 5 million metric tons of soot released into the stratosphere & up to 70% loss of the ozone layer.
MWnB TIL in 2007, A prototype submitted to the FCC would have enabled free high speed wireless internet country-wide. It was rejected. Engineers later recovered the unit and opened it there: It’d been damaged - the other sent unit worked perfectly. The FCC refused comment.
PYOoJ TIL That British Columbia, Canada has a law called the "Apology Act" which states that apologising can not be used as admission of fault or liability
LYe9 TIL That at the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippor War, Israeli forces of just 3,000 troops, 180 tanks and 60 artillery were able to halt the advance of a Syrian force of 28,000 troops, 800 tanks and 600 artillery until reservists were mobilised