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TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand

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0w8vN TIL about The Grievance Study Affair. Two professors changed the text of Mein Kampf replacing the word "Jews"with "the patriarchy". It got published in an academic journal.
VB6WQ TIL about Hanatarash, a Japanese noise band that used power tools, drills, and heavy machinery as their instruments. In 1985, at one of their shows, the frontman Yamantaka Eye drove through the back wall of the venue with an excavator and proceeded to throw a molotov cocktail at the wreckage.
rk5o TIL there was a made-for-TV Gilligan’s Island movie featuring the Harlem Globetrotters playing a team of robots
9YmNp TIL David Bowie didn't have different colored eyes (heterochromia), but different sized pupils (anisocoria).
xPKo TIL that Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band of San Francisco natives, and were certainly not “born on a bayou.”