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TIL In the Japanese radio censored version of the song “Gay Bar” by Electric six, the line “let’s start a war, start a nuclear war” is replaced with “let’s do an edit, do a radio edit”

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p5PG TIL: A Rutgers study found out that drug addicts became trapped into addiction trying to seek relief from emotional lows rather than euphoric highs as previously thought.
myvY TIL in 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase
E1rax TIL about Pitcairn Island, the least populous national jurisdiction in the world. Its 50 inhabitants are descended mostly from a group of 9 mutineers, who settled on the island in 1790.
9Md7 TIL the word “palindrome” isn’t “palindrome” spelled backwards, but “palindrome” spelled backwards is “emordnilap”, which is a real word that represents any word that when spelled backwards makes a new word - such as “time” and “emit” - so “emordnilap palindrome” is an emordnilap palindrome
yQKR8 TIL of a German art project called the Time Pyramid. It consists of 120 concrete blocks, but only one block is placed every 10 years. So far, 3 blocks have been placed. It is scheduled to be completed in the year 3183