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TIL Don Cheadle's father was a US congressman for nearly 25 years

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mmAP TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor the lyrics of Killing In The Name when performing live for BBC. They started out censored before launching into the full lyrics, which are “F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”
v1rrL TIL that Indian surgeons were performing successful rhinoplasties as early as 600 BC. They'd slice an upside-down nose shape from your forehead skin, twist it around, and insert hollow bamboo sticks for you to breathe through.
oB777 TIL that Ramon Artagaveytia survived the sinking of the ship "America" in 1871. After 40 years of recovering from the trauma, and never being on a ship since, he decided to board a ship heading for America on 10th April 1912, the Titanic. He did not survive.
RML6 TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.
nWaab TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.