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TIL when Stevie Ray Vaughan was once out with his mom, he told her: “I don’t mind the fans, but I wish they wouldn’t stop me when I’m with you”. She replied, “If you weren’t wearing that hat, maybe they wouldn’t recognize you!”. There was no distinction between SRV’s on-stage and off-stage attire.

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LkDmZ TIL That during the summer of 2013, in Sweden, some male train drivers chose to wear skirts to work in order to revolt against a ban on shorts that their employers had put into place. The company wanted its drivers to look "decent and proper" and believed they couldn't do so in shorts.
mMaO TIL despite rising sea levels, Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean
aXAM TIL that an experimental deployable structure that was installed into the Mir space station that failed to deploy was fixed by being kicked.
Oo76g TIL In Clash Of The Titans (1981) Movie, Kraken is not part of the greek Mythology but is Norwegian.
x6pm5 TIL Millvina Dean was the last and youngest survivor of the Titanic. She was just over 2 months old when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Dean credits her father for her survival. She was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.