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TIL BBC executives had decided not to air the pilot of the sitcom Are You Being Served but needed filler material to broadcast when the 1972 Summer Olympics were interrupted by the Munich Massacre. The show went on to run for 10 seasons and spawned a movie and a 2 season spinoff series

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J4rm TIL the current Empress of Japan, Empress Michiko is a Hibernophile and has a keen interest in Irish mythology most notably “The Children of Lir” and recites I See His Blood Upon The Rose by Joseph Plunkett as a party piece and even speaks passable Irish
v16kL TIL that plain grey shirt Mark Zuckerburg wears all the time costs between $300 and $400
dxd7 TIL an Indian man was declared dead due to a greedy relative and a corrupt official. He won an Ignoble prize for his 19 year fight to reverse it.
XEB1P TIL that the Arikara, not the Lakota, were the original inhabitants of what is now Mount Rushmore (The Black Hills). The Lakota (hailing from what is now Minnesota) settled the region in the 18th century, driving out the native inhabitants.
Ovj6 TIL that John Quincy Adams took the oath of office using a law book instead of a bible. Adams was the sixth President of the United States from 1825-1829.