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TIL in the music video for Cruel Summer by Bananarama, the band was high on cocaine for the second part of the shoot and it’s noticeable in the video.

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7rP47 TIL that the elderly in Japan decided to clear up the nuclear waste so that the young were not exposed to it.
bZNj TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other rescue gear had not been touched, and the fate of the 2-man crew has never been solved.
697bW TIL that 12 of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh's assassin's used British passports, along with 6 Irish, 4 French, 1 German, and 3 Australian passports
pgWQ TIL that the gothic rock band Theatre of Ice decided to break up after they were kidnapped by a group of fans who believed the band could help them summon demons
m1xdp TIL the carriage used in President Kennedy’s funerary procession has an interesting history of its own. It also once carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, and the Unknown Soldier in 1921.