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TIL Rage Against the Machine received a "lifetime ban" from 'Saturday Night Live' after they attempted to hang American flags upside down for their set, in opposition of billionaire and 1996 presidential candidate Steve Forbes (LAST TOP POST WAS REMOVED; AUTHOR UPDATED ARTICLE AFTER I POSTED)

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YjA7 TIL that during the Great Flood of 1993, 23 year-old James Scott removed sandbags from an Illinois levee in order to strand his wife on the other side of the river so that he could keep partying. He received life imprisonment for “intentionally causing a catastrophe”.
lnAN TIL scientists spent 3 days filling an ant colony with 10 tons of cement then spending weeks digging it out to reveal the amazingly complex designed network
PYvdZ TIL that John allen chau, christian missionary who famously was killed by the north sentinelese in India in 2018,tried to communicate with them in the xhosa Language(a south african language!), after which the natives often fell silent.
vPEGD TIL during the filming of the bulgarien movie Khan Asparuh 20,000 soldiers and 1,300 horses were mobilized. NATO was thinking that Bulgaria is preparing for a war.
9OZm TIL that sperm can be derived from bone marrow. Same-sex, and even self-fertilization is plausible.