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TIL in the 80s, when Al Gore’s wife ‘Tipper’ and her PMRC organization instituted a nation-wide campaign to sensor rock music in the US, Jello Biafa from the Dead Kennedys confronted her on the Oprah show and quite eloquently presented a case for Freedom of Speech in music.

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X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.
GYj8Q TIL Samurai’s would do the infamous haircut of shaving the top of their head and keep the back long otherwise known as “Chonmage” in order to keep them cool while fighting in the humid months but also to still keep their helmet secure on their head with the hair in the back.
OoB1X TIL There's a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. It s so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts. The ISS orbits the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles (416km). Meanwhile the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles (2,700km) away.
GXJg TIL there was a Tea Party group boycotting Fox News last year for becoming ‘too liberal’
7885x TIL Chiclets get their name from the Chicle tree, this trees sap being a prehistoric form of chewing gum.