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TIL Conan O'Brien has History and Literature Degrees from Harvard.

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M71Wm TIL Canadian cable-TV music network MuchMusic refused to air Warrant's "Cherry Pie" music video on the grounds that it was "offensively sexist".
yVgLv TIL that during WW2 Chinese Muslim Imam, Hu Songshan required the Chinese flag to be saluted during morning prayer, and wrote a prayer in Arabic and Chinese for the destruction of the Japanese and the support of the Kuomintang Chinese government.
p8yrO TIL A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle that resembles a small tank, roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support and scouting. Some were so low that the occupant had to lie prone.
oAm7 TIL Disney was planning on making a short film featuring Mickey Mouse as Christopher Colombus discovering America. It got cancelled because the animation team was unsure how to animate the native people Mickey would have to encounter in a non-offensive way.
oB7BA TIL that in 1874 the "American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" brought the attention to child abuse because there were no rights for protecting children. The case of Mary Ellen.