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TIL that the "schoolboy" look that Angus Young wore in the band AC/DC was suggested by his sister. He was 18 at the time and it was his school uniform she suggested he wear on stage.

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A87w TIL that the Catholic Church didn’t officially recognize the ideas of Galileo until 1992, more than 20 years after Apollo 11
g7W7 TIL that when Marie Curie’s body was exhumed it was found that her radium levels were below the acceptable limit. She likely got cancer from her early work in the military, not from her pioneering research into radioactivity.
6dQm TIL that a New Zealand rugby player was involved in a ruck that resulted in his scrotum being severed and his testicle hanging loose. He asked the team doctor to stitch his scrotum and continued playing the game until he was taken out after sustaining a subsequent, unrelated concussion.
XEDXQ TIL that the oldest non-human primate of all time is Cheeta the Chimp, who lived to be 80 years. Becoming famous as one of Tarzan's sidekicks in the 1930s-1960s, Cheeta went on to live a happy life as an Ambassador, also playing piano and painting.
yrpa TIL the series Police Squad was cancelled because “the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it,” which TV Guide magazine called “the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series.”