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TIL The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde first started out creating a project called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge

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l7XJ5 TIL: The Government of Canada has an office that creates coats of arms for Canadian citizens, and that all Canadian Citizens may apply to the Governor General for a coat of arms and even an officially-recognized personal flag
a8oQo TIL that the British government nationalised all the pubs in some towns in an attempt to reduce drunkeness
j694v TIL there's a telescope in Texas that was shot 7 times 50 years ago and it still works at 99% capacity
BgLyr TIL a high school student wrote a text-based moon landing simulation in 1969 using a PDP-8 minicomputer. It was "a question and answer game" - at each stage of the landing you'd find out your current velocity and then you had to enter how much fuel to use. If you burned fuel too early, you'd crash.
WkBjA TIL Pope Gregory IX's association of cats with witchcraft led to the wholesale slaughter of the critters, and some scholars believe believe that by the 1300’s, Europe’s cat numbers were sufficiently depleted to prevent them from killing rats and mice, allowing the bubonic plague to spread.