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TIL that The Beatles made a petition in order to try to get Mick Jagger to portray Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

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x40w TIL that a 16 year old boy faced 90 years in prison after being accused of possession of child pornography. It was later proven he was innocent on those charges, but he pleaded guilty to distributing porn to minors. He had showed a playboy magazine to his friends at lunch. He is now a sex offender.
gr5WA TIL that Imperata cylindrica - also known as kunai grass - is listed as an invasive weed in some areas of the world, but it is also a common medical spice that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine.
JEyV TIL that Paul McCartney was mugged at knifepoint in Lagos, Nigeria. The thieves made off with all the demo tapes for the album Band on the Run, that he was down there to make. McCartney had to re-create the demos entirely from memory before the album could be made.
VBkdp TIL that Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek the Animated Series without George Takai and Nichelle Nichols claiming they were proof of ethic diversity in the 23rd century.
lo4aB TIL Fidel Castro during his first 6 months as President of Cuba built 1000 KM of roads, spent $300 million on water and sanitation projects, constructed 800 houses every month, & set a cap for landholdings to 993 acres per owner.