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GY5ng TIL that Queen still performed in apartheid South Africa when the majority of bands refused to, and was by far the largest band to do so. They were subsequently placed on the United Nations' artist blacklist.
RmO8 TIL: The U.S. Federal tax code has 74,608 pages (187 times longer than it was a century ago)
XEyLP TIL there is an old (still active) law in Denmark, that if the sea between Denmark and Sweden freezes over, and a swede crosses the frozen water, you can beat them with a stick.
WkZQo TIL in Louisiana "Creole" isn't a racial identifier historically and denotes someone born in the new world as opposed to the home country no matter the race.
W7Yv9 TIL that the Nazis funded search missions for the holy grail and other mythical objects, which were an inspiration for Indiana Jones