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TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor the lyrics of Killing In The Name when performing live for BBC. They started out censored before launching into the full lyrics, which are “F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”

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XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.
MeKEb TIL that the FBI investigated the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", when it was being made and eventually released, for being communist propaganda
7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
dD4kr TIL That Alasaka's coastline is longer than all other 49 states combined. Yes, including Hawaii
9YV5D TIL closed captions and subtitles are different. Closed captions assume that watchers can't hear anything, therefore describing background noises, music and other audio cues that need discribing, while subtitles are assuming that the watchers can hear, and just says what the characters are saying.