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TIL Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was banned in South Africa after schoolchildren started chanting itslyrics to protest an inferior educational system.

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9OJG TIL Ted Nugent “supposedly Americas biggest patriot,” shit his pants every day to dodge the draft to the Vietnam War.
4Xr1g TIL Oxyphenbutazone is theoretically the highest-scoring of all the Scrabble words—hooked to the right words, it would earn a whopping 1,778 points, found Dan Stock of Ohio. But it would require perfect placement of eight other tiles, so it’s never actually been played in a real game.
9l0M TIL that, after Harry Houdini piloted the first airplane over the skies of Australia, he proclaimed that the world may forget his performances as an escape artist, but they would never forget he was the first person to fly a plane in Australia.
WkWyY TIL the reason we bake/roast almost everything at 350° is because the Maillard reaction and caramelization tends to happen between 300° and 350°
1KOV TIL of the 5.04 million articles on the site, Wikipedia’s own staff only consider 0.4% as meeting the basic standards to qualify as a “good” article