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TIL Beavis & Butt-head used to provide commentary on real-life music videos. The band “Winger” took offense to the comments about one of their videos. Upon hearing this, a new character, Stewart, was created to be constantly ridiculed. Stewart's shirt reads "Winger."

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6K4w TIL : A merchant was sentenced to face a lion in the arena when he was caught selling fake jewels to the Empress, when the cage opened however a chicken walked out, the Emperor then proclaimed that “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him”.The merchant was allowed to go home then.
Qw8k TIL Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized.
4k8Yb TIL that the Nutmobile is a peanut-shaped car, has existed since 1935, and the word is stylized as NUTmobile
1kEX TIL Pope Paul VI spent the night of July 20,21 1969 watching the moon through a telescope of the Vatican Observatory during the first moon landing. Afterward, he praised the achievement by writing at length about the event
GAQVQ TIL two-time Oscar winner and legendary actor Marlon Brando (The Godfather, etc.), had a patent issued in his name between 2002 and 2004 at age 78-80....for what amounts to a "drumhead autotuner - a tunable drum for use with or without a drum stand"