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TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.

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Eb1p TIL that the first instance of Telephone hold music was a mistake that was caused by a loose piece of wire touching a metal girder at a factory. It turned the building into a giant radio antenna that would play music from a next-door radio station when people were put on hold.
69NJZ TIL that The Beach Boys didn't actually use the theremin (the instrument that makes the oooeeeoooo sound) in Good Vibrations, due to it being notoriously difficult to play. Instead they used a simplified version
Jgvl TIL that two chefs have committed suicide after being on one of Gordon Ramsay’s cooking shows.
lYYK TIL Henrietta Lacks died in 1951. The tumor that killed her has been alive and growing to this day.
0wEjj TIL about the Bystander Effect. A social phenomenon where individuals witnessing a crime or accident are less likely to help depending on the number of bystanders. The more bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help.