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TIL that the graphic sex scenes in the controversial 'Pagan Poetry' music video were performed and filmed by Björk herself.

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D16We TIL the Peace Symbol represents the flag semaphores for ‘N’ (flags held at 5 and 7o’clock positions) and ‘D’ (flags held at 12 and 6o’clock) and stands for Nuclear Disarmament.
Rvl6 TIL the person who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let It Go.”
4XbWo TIL Televangelist Pat Robertson, net worth $100M, predicted in 1976 that the world would end in November of 1982. After that didn't happen, he tried again a decade later—in his 1990 book The New Millennium, he said the world would be destroyed on April 29, 2007. The world did not end on that date.
GAykj TIL The sound of Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom” was inspired by Ric Ocasek’s band’s 1978 hit “Just What I Needed.” In the music video, Stacy’s mom’s car has “I heart Ric” on her license plate.
X0XNR TIL that David Carradine died in a hotel room in Bangkok, the reported result of autoerotic asphyxiation - the intentional restriction of oxygen for sexual pleasure. His family and agent believed that Carradine was murdered.