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TIL China blocked searches for "big yellow duck" because activists photoshopped Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duck sculpture into the Tank Man photo

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nrJG TIL George Lucas allowed the band members of ‘N SYNC to make a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in order to appease his daughters. The footage was then cut out of the final version of the film
jMXa TIL that in WW2 JFK swam 4 hours to safety while towing an injured crewman with his teeth after his ship was destroyed. (In the Greatest Display of Badassedry Section)
EWx0 TIL Corn can only exist if cultivated by humans, and there is evidence to support humans figured this out over 7,000 years ago.
A6jl TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”
wPGM TIL: There is no evidence for the widely-held belief that the U.S. distributed smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That notion came from one professor who fabricated his research.