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TIL a bunch of comedians almost succeeded in pranking the 2007 Superbowl by getting the audience to spell out a message in lights during the Prince halftime show.

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QJpmk TIL Soundgarden's album Superunknown (1994) employed 7 different guitar tuning for individual songs including very unorthodox ones.
d01E TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of a US ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.
18Nd TIL one whale carcass can support other forms of life for 50 to 75 years, which is comparable to the lifespan of the whale itself.
m1vKP TIL Foot binding, the practice of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size, was still prevalent in China until the early 20th century.
WpLd TIL that New College in Oxford was in need of new oak beams for it’s dining hall (the old ones were infested with beetles). They soon discovered that the original builders had planted them replacements hundreds of years before.