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Today I Learned that a man thinks he traveled to another dimension where The Beatles never broke up. Here’s the story and the supposed songs he brought back.

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JYAKk TIL that in 1942 the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was banned by BBC during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.
AMNB TIL that in 1954 the economist Armen Alchian was able to figure out what the secret fuel was for the newly developed hydrogen bomb just by looking at the share prices of chemical suppliers on the stock market
m15LM TIL in 2011, a Korean sect known as “Good News Mission” scammed around 400 teachers with a recruitment scheme to teach English in Mexico that were really lectures where the guests were forced by guards to engage in a ballroom and were subjected to physical punishment for things such as tardiness.
gr5yW TIL Washington Crossing the Delaware was painted by a German-born artist and the original was destroyed by allied bombing during World War II.