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TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”

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LQdPr Today I learned that in the Marshall Islands (where Bikini Atoll, the namesake of the bikini, is located) bikinis are considered taboo because they expose the shoulders and thighs.
ZOBG TIL An Air Canada flight was asked by Australian authorities to investigate an emergency beacon. The plane, with 270 people, flew at 4000 feet as crew and passengers used binoculars to locate a stranded sailor, who was later rescued by police. The flight landed safely in Sydney, 90 minutes delayed.
MyXW TIL We have detonated nukes in space and that they produce artificial aurora
R7yyw TIL of the White House Peace Vigil a 24-hour a day anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil started by William Thomas in 1981. Thomas believed it to be the longest running uninterrupted anti-war protest in U.S. history
R7Al7 TIL that in 1988 Aloha flight 243 blew it's roof mid-flight but the pilots were still able to successfully land the aircraft with all passengers surviving except for flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, who was sucked out and whose body was never found.