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TIL zeppelins and blimps are different things, zeppelins have a rigid metal skeleton, whereas blimps do not.

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JYddm TIL that "I Want to Break Free", a song by the British rock band Queen, known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in women's clothes which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, was considered controversial in the United States and banned by MTV.
x7J5 TIL “Sherpa” is an ethnic group, not a job title. The Sherpa people are revered as great mountaineers, so the word is now synonymous.
Yp8xW TIL that owls do not have eyeballs. Rather tube like eyes. This prevents them from being able to move them.
JBQv TIL Jennifer Lopez’s parents told her becoming a movie star was “really stupid” and that “no Latinos did that”. Fifteen years later, she became the first person to have a number one album and film in the same week.
wVZ1 TIL there is a 92-character Chinese poem in which each syllable is pronounced “shi,” yet tells a coherent story.