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TIL a pickle is a cucumber

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xVLl0 TIL Japan's high schools often have strict standards of conformity regarding hair color. Half of Tokyo's schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof; in 2017 a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.
nenVo TIL that Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance (seen at the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody movie) was voted the greatest live performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock in August 1969 came second, followed by the Sex Pistols in 1976.
4ow6 TIL That Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite
R7Or6 TIL Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the East) was badly burned while filming The Wizard Of Oz. After being hospitalized she returned to set but refused to do any scenes with fire so her stunt double took her place in a scene riding a prop that spewed smoke which exploded injuring her as well.
ZJgG TIL that there were four cameras aimed at the FBI building in the OKC bombing, but the tapes of all four are blank at 9:02 during the actual bombing itself, as the tapes were being replaced.