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TIL Russia passed a Bill in 2008 that banned Emo.
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TIL that a major breakthrough towards the invention of plastics was achieved due to a surge in the popularity of billiard, prompting producers of billiard balls to offer a reward of 10000$ to anyone who could come up with a viable alternative to ivory (which the balls were hitherto made of...)
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TIL The "Pirate Accent" originates from a single actor. Robert Newton exaggerated his natural Cornish accent when he portrayed Blackbeard and Long John Silver in Various Films in the 1950s.
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TIL in 1859, the French government passed a law defining the frequency of musical notes, in the first move to standardize musical pitches.
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TIL Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut, was inspired to apply to NASA by the Star Trek character, Lieutenant Uhura. Jemison later went on to make a cameo appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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TIL in 2008 the council of the British city of Birmingham printed 360,000 leaflets that featured an image of the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. The council then said that it was meant to be a "generic skyline picture".