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TIL Robert Plant once donated $10,000 to KBOO, a non-profit community radio station in Portland Oregon, to never play "Stairway to Heaven" ever again.

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oJR7 TIL that Nixon sabotaged LBJ’s peace negotiations with North Vietnam.
xVOMo TIL that the handrail around the turret in some early WW2 tanks is an antenna. The presence of a handrail antenna would reveal to the enemy that the tank is a command tank, which made it a primary target in the combat. Because of this, it was eventually replaced with a whip antenna.
b6LpE TIL of Ceca, a singer acclaimed as “Serbia’s Mother”and a superstar in the Balkans who also happened to be married to one of the most notorious war criminals during the Yugoslav Wars.
AKln TIL that Sarah Jessica Parker’s second line in the 1994 movie Ed Wood is “Do I really have a face like a horse?”
E1Y4W TIL Minesweeper and Solitaire were added to Windows back in the 3.1 days, to train mouse discipline without the users even realizing they were learning. Solitaire was added to teach users how to Drag and Drop, Minesweeper taught using the right/left mouse buttons and mouse precision/control