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TIL Google will fight to keep sites like The Pirate Bay available in the USA.

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7K1X TIL that “sardine” isn’t actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.
OowNY TIL The city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky has a yearly festival called "Kelly Little Green Men Days" to commemorate the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of August 21, 1955 when small alien creatures invaded the home of the Sutton family.
6ExZQ TIL that crowd noises for the movie 'Spartacus' [1960] were recorded at Spartan Stadium of MSU. Prior to a football game between MSU and Notre Dame, 76,000 spectators were instructed by actor John Gavin [Caesar] to roar, 'Spartacus! Spartacus!', 'Hail Crassus' and of course, 'I'm Spartacus!'
rNEee TIL Members Only, a popular brand of jackets in the 1980s, spent its entire 6 million dollar ad budget in 1986 on anti-drug public service announcements.
ZxN4 [TIL] The most popular pornsite on the web is xhamster.com