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TIL "Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks video was banned due to a outro in which the wife gets ready to shoot the cheating husband.

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rRjdd TIL of Springfield Missouri's Great Cobra Scare of 1953 when 11 cobras got loose in the Route 66 town.
W7xVB TIL in the 1890s Spain gave 8 days to all rural Cubans to move to concentration camps, killing those who didn't comply. By 1898, a third of Cuba's population was in concentration camps, and over 400,000 Cubans in the camps were dead, or over 20% of the island's population
VMBNZ TIL of the "lizardman constant", which explains seemingly nonsensical poll results such as "4% of americans believe that lizards are running the earth" and "7% of americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows"
jNv1p TIL of the Republic of Užupis, a suburb of Vilnius, Lithuania which declared itself independent in 1998. Every April fools day Lithuania sets up border posts on the bridges and stamps passports. The Republics Constitution guarentees "A dog has the right to be a dog."
x6lk TIL Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was originally dismissed by the band when Kurt Cobain proposed it. It took multiple jam sessions and collaboration from the entire band and was never thought to be a hit. It’s also the only song that all three members are credited as authors.