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TIL the song “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys was written as a parody of frat culture, and the band was upset that people took it at face value.

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Yj0x TIL beards and long dresses fell out of fashion during the 1900s due to public health campaigns about spreading tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Prior to germ theory and vaccines, people thought beards and fabric protected against miasma and “bad air”.
7rxXM TIL Shelley Duvall was nominated for worst actress at the Razzie Awards 1981 for her role in The Shining
gMvDX TIL William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody had incredibly progressive views in his time. He openly spoke out against slavery in 1853 and was stabbed twice by an angered member of the mostly pro-slavery crowd; and advocated equal rights for women, the civil rights of Natives, and conservationism.
b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
E1NBW TIL between 1990 and 1997 the Hubble Space Telescope assigned several hours per year to projects proposed by amateur astronomers, some of which led to publishable discoveries, but these policy was discontinued due to budget reductions.