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TIL that Elvis would sing inappropriate parodies of his songs including “suck me tender” and so on...

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xOOk TIL of a Shabbat elevator. These elevators stop at every floor so that Jews won’t have to press buttons on the Sabbath since pressing buttons is considered ‘doing work’.
VBEPG TIL that the author of the medieval poem, "Gawain and the Green Knight," alongside other poems, is unknown to history. Despite his poems being some of the most famous from the medieval period, his identity is lost.
PYeyE TIL that, under Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire was a Meritocracy (government by people promoted on a basis of Merit rather than Nepotism)
5VAjD TIL the song Hey You wasn't in Pink Floyd's The Wall movie because Alan Parker and Roger Waters decided it was simply too depressing and botched the film's pacing, so they had it removed.
1pr8 TIL in 1994, Howard Stern talked a caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge as a nation listened