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TIL that the Kingsmen song "Louie Louie" (which was investigated for indecency by the FBI for 31 months, which turned up nothing) did in fact contain swear word that was never detected by the FBI: the drummer audibly shouts "F***!" at approx. 0:55, when he dropped a drumstick during recording.

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LGA9 TIL Louisiana State Penitentiary was founded as a slave plantation, and is still run as a prison farm to this day
OGEXR TIL about "Cemetery Island" (old Newburg Cemetery) in Kentucky Lake, a strip of land that's only visible when the water is low. It has a grave marker from 1907 that's regularly toppled by boats when the water is high in the summer and has to be propped back up in the winter.
grlWb TIL that actor Terrence Howard developed his own mathematics system, Terryology, claiming to have "proved" that 1x1 doesn't equal 1.
xVwYo TIL that Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210), a Persian Polymath, decentred our universe-centric ideas with his conception of a multiverse. This astonishing idea happened 300 years before Copernicus' more well-known revolution of moving western astronomical knowledge from geocentric to heliocentric
Wk6PA TIL that the most accepted heir of the defunct Imperial Throne of Russia is also a decendent of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Both thrones were lost as an effect of World War 1.