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TIL that Billy Joel stopped a song mid-performance at the Grammys to protest Frank Sinatra’s acceptance speech being cut short to appease advertisers. (moment at three minute mark)

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p8X04 TIL that a micro-animal known as Tardigrade has survived all five mass extinction events.It can live in boiling water, solid ice and endure the intense radiation of space.It can survive a decade in a desert without a drop of water to drink as well as in the deepest trenches of the sea.
OoY07 TIL of physicist Lene Hau, who in 1999 led a team at Harvard University that was able to slow down a beam of light to 38mph and in 2001 they successfully stopped a beam of light.
l7O9r TIL in 2005, Sothebys & Christies had to play Rock-Paper-Scissors over an art collection. Sothebys assumed it was random chance, so had no strategy. But Christies studied the game & asked two 11yo twin girls, who picked scissors: “Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper.” Christies won.
d81gQ TIL a man in conservative Lubbock County Texas was allowed to wear a colander on his head for his driver's license because he convinced a clerk to recognize his belief in Pastafarianism and it was his "religious freedom".
vvWx TIL-Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.