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TIL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK because of controversy surrounding ninjas.

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KY0RR TIL Link Wray’s 1958 instrumental "Rumble" was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The song is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the USA.
oBZvo TIL Tom Green won 5 Rasberry Awards for "Freddie Got Fingered" in 2002. He showed up in a white Cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, and had to be dragged off stage because he wouldn't stop playing the harmonica.
4kXmR TIL in 1991 As a Captain HR McMaster lead a legendary tank battle in Iraq that destroyed a much larger Iraqi tank force. He defeated 28 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks in 23 minutes with no loses. This earned him a Silver Star for valor.
4k8xw TIL that Kuwait has no rivers or lakes in the entire country and almost completely relies on desalination for drinking water. There are currently more than six desalination plants in operation, and Kuwait was the first country in the world to use desalination to for large-scale domestic use.
woX7W TIL China has the most skyscrapers in the world. It has so many in fact that the next 13 countries combined still have less skyscrapers than China.