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TIL Van Halen's David Lee Roth wrote the song "Panama" (which is about a fast car) as a response to being accused of only writing about women, parties, and fast cars. He realized he had never written a song about a fast car, so he wrote one.

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P7Vn TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her
wWd7 TIL: In “Batman and Captain America”, the Joker teamed up with a character named Red Skull. However, on learning the character was actually a nazi and not just pretending, the Joker turned on him, proclaimed “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”
a8EoJ TIL that in the UK, up until 1950, several universities were represented in the House of Commons. They were each allowed to elect 1 or 2 MPs from their own university.
XYd8 TIL Vin Diesel is an avid player of Dungeons & Dragons, and has been playing for over 20 years. While filming xXx, he had a fake tattoo on his stomach with the name of his D&D character, Melkor.
R7VKl TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.