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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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1LA7 TIL Charles Lyne, a British filmmaker, raised $8486 to force two people to watch a 10 hour 7 minute movie of paint drying. Those two people were employees of the BBFC, responsible for classifying movies, and the stunt was done to protest the BBFC’s power of censorship.
rN0k1 TIL huge rogue waves were dismissed as a scientifically implausible sailors' myth by scientists until one 84ft wave hit an oil platform. The phenomenon has since been proven mathematically and simulated in a lab, also proving the existence of rogue holes in the ocean.
gYR8 TIL that Netflix’s catalog has shrunk by more than 2,000 titles in the past couple of years
OG674 TIL slavery was restored in French colonies by Napoleon, causing a rebellion by former slaves led by Louis Delgrès. After realizing they could not win and refused to surrender, they ignited their gunpowder stores, committing suicide in the process, attempting to kill as many French troops as possibl
1QRV TIL Henry V’s only surviving portrait is in profile probably because he was shot in the face by an arrow fighting Welsh and English rebels in Shrewsbury which left bad scarring, this is probably also where he learnt the effectiveness of the Welsh Longbow which helped him win the Battle Of Agincourt.