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TIL that after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel Communications distributed a suggested song ban list for its 1,200 radio stations. Included on the list are “Imagine” by John Lennon and all of Rage Against the Machine’s songs.

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kOjR4 TIL about Beate Sirota, an Austrian-born Jew raised in Japan. She was educated at the German School of Tokyo for six years, but her parents deemed it "too Nazi" and moved her to the American school. She helped write the Japanese constitution in 1946 ensuring equality for women is enshrined in law.
Yp0bA TIL Disney’s Tower of Terror drop tower has been developed by Otis, whose normal job is to make elevator rides as smoothly as possible
690x8 TIL Flappy Bird, released in May 2013, became a sleeper hit in early 2014, and by the end of January, it was the most downloaded free game on the iOS App Store, earning $50,000 a day. However, the developer soon removed it, citing guilt over "the game's addictive nature and overuse."
d8ORE TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984
l7jX1 TIL there area an estimated half a million red wood trees in the UK (most are believed to be giant redwoods but also include coastal redwoods and dawn redwoods). And despite being native to California, they seem to be thriving.