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TIL Interior Secretary James Watts banned the Beach Boys from playing on the National Mall, Watt said "hard rock" music "brought the wrong element" citing drug and alcohol use. Instead, Watt invited longtime Las Vegas star Wayne Newton to provide a more 'patriotic, family-based entertainment.'

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gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.
Egp9w TIL that genital herpes was not generally stigmatised until the 1970s, but stories about the stigma being due to advertising campaigns for antiviral drugs are thought to be untrue
D1x7P TIL that Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux of said that “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
X00jR TIL El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel was sentenced to 3 years in prison for assisting her husband in his criminal enterprise. A minimum sentence of 10 years was originally planned. Government rumours assure her cooperation. Her life is now at risk, as the cartel does not forgive traitors or suspectes.
6EBWY TIL That Chinese Tourists got so bad the government stepped in and published a How to Guide in order to avoid embarrassment. One of the tips was "Don’t spit phlegm or gum, throw litter, urinate or defecate wherever you feel like it."