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TIL in Ladakh, India if you sit in the Sun with your feet in the shade, you may suffer from both sunstroke and frostbite at the same time.

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v1b5j TIL, after 9/11, the Clear Channel Memoradum banned 164 songs from radio airplay, such as Metallica’s “Seek & Destroy”, the Beatles “ Lucy in the Sky with a Diamonds”, AC/DC’s “TNT”, Paul McCartney and Wings “Live and Let Die”, and Rage Against The Machine’s entire catalog.
rN0y1 TIL the Soviet Union nearly launched a nuclear attack on China in 1969, only the intervention of the United States stopped them
61j7 TIL the title Ms. was introduced by the Feminist movement in the 1960’s by women who felt that they should be known for something other than who they were married to
yVPGv TIL That in some international versions of TMNT, The title has been censored to “TMHT”, with the H standing for “Hero”, even with dialogue that contains the word “Ninja” replaced , also, Nunchucks were removed from those versions
a8Evy TIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what the serial number and model of the printer is, allowing the documents to be traced back to the owner.