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TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"

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oB0W8 TIL about Edith Sampson, who in 1950 became the first African-American to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. She later became the first Black U.S. representative to NATO and became the first Black woman to be elected judge in the state of Illinois.
E15jw TIL that the Jimmy Stewart movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) was banned in the USSR and Axis nations for being pro-democracy; while federal legislators in the U.S. called for its ban claiming it was pro-communist.