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TIL that MTV refused to play "Billie Jean" and had never played any other video by Jackson or a black artist. Only after CBS Records president threatened to pull every video clip from his company and expose the racial discrimination MTV relented.

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6yZQ TIL There is a project to put orange on indoor cats to easily distinguish indoor cats that have escaped vs outdoor cats.
gDEA TIL male chicks of egg-laying chicken strains serve no purpose in agriculture and are killed by high speed grinders, poisonous gas, neck breaking, electrocution, or suffocation as soon as their sex is determinable.
5EAp TIL Scientists lit a hole filled with natural gas on fire in 1971, thinking it would burn for only a few days. The hole has been burning for the past 46 years and is called “The Door to Hell”
E1kAw TIL that a Game Boy survived the fire caused by bombing in the gulf war
1apmD TIL that not all Norse soldiers who die in battle go to Odin’s hall, Valhalla. Half go to Freyja’s field, Fólkvangr, which has a different hall: Sessrúmnir. Freyja rides a chariot pulled by two cats and occasionally rides her boar, Hildisvíni (who is actually her protégé Óttar, disguised).