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TIL that Kosovo's national anthem has no words

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oYZK TIL that in Soviet Russia, rebellious teenagers who mimicked the Beatles’ hair were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations
D1eeV TIL that a blue whales tongue weighs as much as an elephant.
loaKV TIL that the set of Hogan's Heroes was burned down for the ending of an unrelated film because it was cheaper than having the set demolished
GGXE TIL a man died while cleaning machinery with gasoline, which dripped onto a rat that was running across the floor. The rat’s gasoline-coated fur ignited when it ran beneath a heater with a pilot light, causing an explosion that killed the worker - a story of negligence now taught in law schools.
npdG TIL that “Third World” countries are not defined by their economy or development. Instead they are all the countries that were neither aligned with the US and its allies (first world) nor the USSR and its allies (second world) during the Cold War.