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7rkyr TIL After the death of Princess Diana, radio station XFM banned certain songs that might upset people. Banned songs included Drive by The Cars, Airbag by Radiohead and anything by the Crash Test Dummies.
5YbdP TIL horses can't vomit because they have a strong lower esophageal sphincter that acts as a one-way valve, preventing food from coming up.
7nJO TIL that after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.
JYQkl TIL that a Canadian satirical political party, the Rhinoceros party threatened to declare war on Belgium. Said war would be cancelled if the Beligan embassy brought a case of mussels and Beligian beers to the party's Montreal hindquarters(sic). The Belgians did actually delivered
e0wd4 TIL James Watt needed to convince skeptics to ditch their draft horses&buy his steam engine. To prove its superiority, he measured a horse walking in ­circles to turn a grindstone in a mill. He multiplied distance it walked by its ­~180 pounds of pulling force&came up with a new measure: horsepower