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TIL Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” passes the Bechdel-Wallace Test

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JAAj TIL the Japanese school year is 11 months long and is 6 days a week, and students do chores
9Y9DQ TIL that mud dauber wasps are notorious for building their nests inside the pitot tubes, fuel tank vents and drains of aircrafts and have contributed to numerous plane crashes throughout history as a result.
5WyP TIL punk band The Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards to play their song “California Über Alles”. Instead they wrote a new song “Pull My Strings” to make a mockery out of the event and mainstream music.
PMve TIL there is a thing called Black Day (April 14) in South Korea where the people who didn’t receive anything on the equivalent of valentine’s day eat black noodles and mourn being single.
wLkBP TIL that France granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial to 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.