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TIL the FBI kept files on Elvis Presley because they believed he raised the sexual passions of teenagers posing a "definite danger to the security of the United States"

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0dd6p TIL the phrase “abracadabra” originates from the book Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Sammonicus
ZWKv TIL the largest stadium in the world is in North Korea and has a capacity of 150,000. It was build purely to outdo South Korea’s Seoul Olympic stadium which has a 70,000 capacity
MeLXB TIL that the trope of pirates saying "ARRR" was popularised by actor Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film. In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is from the west country and so Newton took slang from the region and exaggerated it. "ooh arr" means "yes"
Wke6B TIL the clavicle (aka the collar bone) is the most commonly fractured bone.
J1Mpm TIL that Ireland has a population of Wallabies, they were introduced in the 1950s but the population took off in the 1980s when Dublin Zoo had a surplus of the marsupials