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TIL Elvis Costello was banned from SNL after switching from “Less than Zero” to “Radio, Radio” mid performance. SNL’s producer gave him the finger for the duration of the song.

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5VeLD Today I learned: New England was originally called New Holland, but after the Dutch won the battle against the Brits over who got control over Suriname, the Dutch gave up their colonies in the North Region of America, and it's why New York used to be called New Amsterdam.
5YeJD TIL that there was an episode of the Twilight Zone in which three astronauts survive a crash landing and wander through the desert until the last man alive realizes he never left earth. Rodd Serling would use a lot of this plot for a film he helped write called "Planet Of The Apes"
a41L TIL Finns are Mongols from central Asia
KOeXB TIL that in the 1930s, the first pregnancy tests were done through injecting a woman’s urine into an infantile mouse, which would then be dissected so its ovaries can be inspected. If the woman was pregnant, the mouse would show signs of ovulation.
WQEB TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children