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TIL that elephants walk on their tiptoes

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8Vo4 TIL: Rock Against Racism was formed in part as a protest against racist remarks by David Bowie and Eric Clapton. The latter announcing “Britain was in danger of becoming a ‘black colony’. Among other things, Clapton said 'Keep Britain white!’ which was at the time a National Front slogan
Wk0l9 TIL that in 2004 a tour bus carrying the Dave Matthews Band through Chicago drove over a bridge and dumped 800 lbs of human waste into the river below, splashing feces and urine onto tourists who were on a sightseeing cruise underneath the bridge.
e0y55 TIL that the depiction of angels as winged humanoids in robes was just a relatively recent idea. In the Bible, they were described as terrifying odd shapes and stuff. One was a burning wheel with multiple eyes and another was a four-faced being. This was why they would say 'fear not' to a human.
grlK7 TIL Half of our weight doesn't have our DNA (not our cells).
X0pMX TIL: when Bob Dylan was touring Scotland in 1966. A waiter arrived at the hotel room they were staying at. Then shouted Fk him" and “you’re a fking traitor to folk music” and pulled out a knife. But he was disarmed by Dylan’s bodyguard.