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TIL the Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.

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5LJD TIL that Beate Uhse was a stuntwoman and Luftwaffe pilot in WWII, ferrying around planes and jet fighters. After the war she started a mail order business sending out pamphlets teaching young girls about the rhythm method, which became the world’s first sex shop and later a €280 million business.
7LYM TIL the 1980 satirical disaster comedy “Airplane!” is largely based on the 1957 drama “Zero Hour!” It follows the same plot, uses the same character name for the hero passenger, and parodies numerous scenes using the same dialog word for word.
9oVG TIL that two scientists, fed up with spam-like emails from a certain conference, submitted a research paper that consisted of only the phrase “get me off your fucking email list”. The paper was later accepted for publication by the Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
ep6w4 TIL there are 20 mountains over 23,000 ft in the world that have never been climbed.