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TIL Bend It Like Beckham was the first ever Western made film to air on television in North Korea.

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Ek7p TIL MTV banned Beavis and Butthead from referencing fire, specifically Beavis’ “Fire” chant, after an arson was blamed on the show. In response, the show had Beavis chant words similar to fire such as fryer. The ban was lifted for the revival and Beavis says fire 7 times in the first video segment.
gM5aW TIL Coconuts are not a fruit, nut or seed but a 'fibrous one-seeded drupe'. There are over 80 types of coconut palms, which are not trees since there is no bark, no branches, or secondary growth. A coconut palm is a 'woody perennial monocotyledon'.
VMb5m TIL that John Tyler is the only US president laid to rest under a flag not of the United States. His allegiance to the Confederacy and death during the Civil War resulted in his burial under the Confederate Flag.
1G5X TIL Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.
oBdG7 TIL about Ota Benga - a Congolese man purchased by a white missionary - who was put on display in the Bronx Zoo. He killed himself in 1916.