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TIL that, during initial development, the producers of The Monkees television show had rejected Stephen Stills as a songwriter.

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VM7G0 TIL Erykah Badu's concert was cancelled in Malaysia in 2012 because it was found that she had applied a temporary tattoo of the word Allah on a part of her body
0dGpj TIL The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes. It was all because Zanzibari Prince Khālid ibn Barghash refused to accept the British Empire’s preferred successor.
xVnL0 TIL whilst filming 'Man on the Moon' at Universal Studios in 1999, Jim Carrey once dressed as Mrs. Bates from 'Psycho' and terrorised a tram of tourists passing the film's sets on the Studio Tour. As a result, the tour has included an actor that slowly approaches the trams as they pass ever since.
vOL7 TIL that on this day, ARPANET shifted its networking protocols from NCP to TCP/IP, marking the beginnings of the internet as we know it.
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