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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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EgMXx TIL: Mitsubishi motors was founded by a samurai.
4X1do TIL: Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac used to speak so less that his colleagues jokingly created a unit of silence in his honour. One 'Dirac' was fewest words it was possible to utter while in company.
p8EQ8 TIL the song Hook by the Blues Traveler is literally about nothing. The lyrics state that the words have no meaning and are completely random but the inflection and music bed is all that matters. It is a stab at producers wanting catchy $$$ making songs and in turn, became one.
rVaM TIL Klan numbers are down to 3,000 to 5,000 members from 5 million in the 1920s.
XE8eD TIL that Morse code is officially considered obsolete and was removed as an international standard for communication in 1999. The French Navy's last Morse message read; "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."