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TIL that Alien Ant Farm crashed the BET awards in 2003 to film their music video for “These Days”. They were arrested for the act.

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KrVE TIL that if you connect jello to an EEG brain scan, it registers as being so alive that you wouldn’t legally be allowed to turn it’s life support off.
xVZnw TIL That of the 50 destroyers transferred to the UK and Canada in the 1940 "Destroyers for Bases" deal, 9 were later loaned to the Soviet Union. Of these 9 the USS Herndon (DD-198), commissioned as HMS Churchill (I-45) in 1940; and transferred to Russia as Dyatelnyi in 1944 was the only one sunk.
won4o TIL that the oldest known photo of a U.S. president is of John Quincy Adams. The photo was taken in 1843.
4kmPw TIL We may have a 50/50 chance of having discovered a planet that is 12.4 lightyears away that supports, and has markers for, at least primitive life already existing
XmZ8 TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it