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TIL It’s illegal to whistle in Petrolia, Ontario

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B8pd TIL an American journalist and author darkened his skin journeyed the south to experience segregation first-hand.
pYMVp TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.
wo5VE TIL Teenagers are drinking less, doing fewer drugs and have less sex than previous generations. Teenagers today are also more depressed than previous generations.
6LnY TIL in 1975, Queen’s manager, John Reid, played “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Elton John (another one of his clients) prior to its release. Elton retorted, “Are you mad? You’ll never get that on the radio!”. The song eventually reached #1, and Elton covered it at Freddie Mercury’s tribute concert in 1992.
KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.